Іrmino () is a city in

Kadiivka urban hromada Kadiivka urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Kadiivka. The hromada contains 35 settlements: 6 cities (Almazna, Brianka, Kirovsk, Luhansk Oblast, Holubivka, Irm ...

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. Irmino is located 55 km

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. It is part of the

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. It is located on the banks of the river Luhan. The population is , . Since the

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began in 2014, Irmino has been under the control of the

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Sole tramcar on the Stakhanov-Irmino line - panoramio

History

Irmino was the first village of Petrovka/Petrivka () founded in 1808 on the right bank of the Luhan by peasants from the

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and renamed Irminka in 1898, and later Irmyne () or Irmino () around 1910, after the coal mine named after Irma, daughter of the mine owner. It was in Irmino, at the “Tsentralna-Irmino” mine, where

Alexei Stakhanov Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov ( rus, Алексе́й Григо́рьевич Стаха́нов, p=stɐˈxanəf, ''Alekséy Grigór'yevich Stakhánov''; 3 January 1906 – 5 November 1977) was a Soviet Union, Soviet mining, miner, Hero of Soc ...

had been working since 1927, that the legendary miner reportedly managed to extract of coal, i.e. 14 times the norm, on the night of 30–31 August 1935. At the time, the village of Irmino depended on

, and Stakhanov's registration would have been made at the Tsentralna-Irmino mine in Kadiivka. In 1936, the village achieved city status and took on the name Teplohirsk in 1977. On 8 July 2010 the town was renamed Irmino. The name Irmino is based on the Russian language and does not conform with the norms of the Ukrainian language.

Name

*1808–1900 — Petrivka, *1900–1962 — Irmyne/Irmino, *1977–2010 — Teplohirsk, *since 2010 — Irmino

Demographics

* 1923 - 2,794 * 1926 - 5,276 * 1939 - 15,327 * 1959 - 21,512 * 1979 - 19,090 * 1989 - 18,549 * 2001 - 13,053 * 2012 - 10,200 * 2013 - 10,044 * 2014 - 9,886 * 2015 - 9,764 * 2016 - 9,687 * 2021 - 9,343

Transport

Irmino is 116 km from

by rail and 75 km by road.

References

1808 establishments in Ukraine Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places established in 1808 Populated places established in the Russian Empire Kadiivka urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub