Shakhtarsk (, ) or Shakhtyorsk () is a
city
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in
Horlivka Raion,
Donetsk Oblast
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,
eastern Ukraine
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, currently occupied by
Russia
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. Regionally, the city is the administrative center of the
Shakhtarsk urban hromada. Population:
History
Urban-type settlement since 1938.
A local newspaper is published here since May 1946.
In August 1953 the
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
Katyk became a city Shakhtyorsk.
[Шахтёрск // Большая Советская Энциклопедия. / под ред. А. М. Прохорова. 3-е изд. том 29. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1978.][Шахтёрск // Советский энциклопедический словарь. редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. 4-е изд. М., «Советская энциклопедия», 1986. стр.1512][Шахтёрск // Большой энциклопедический словарь (в 2-х тт.). / редколл., гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров. том 2. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1991. стр.652] is a coal miner. (The word comes from , which means
shaft.)
In 1964, a
trade college was opened here.
In 1985, the population of the city was 72 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining.
In 1989, the population of the city was 73 854 people, the basis of the economy were coal mining, manufacture of clothes and knitwear.
Since Soviet times until 1997, there were four
vocational school
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s (№ 70, № 71, № 97 and № 98) and one college (a college of commerce and trade); in May 1997, the vocational school № 71 was closed.
In 2000, a textile factory went bankrupt. After
the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the
mechanical-repair plant became bankrupt and was closed.
In 2013, the population was 51 007 people.
Starting mid-April 2014, the self-proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...
occupied towns in Donetsk Oblast; including Shakhtarsk. On 27 July 2014, Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian local militia claimed Ukrainian troops had entered Shakhtarsk. On 30 July 2014, the
DPR militia resumed control of the city.
Demographics
According to the
2001 Ukrainian Census:
Таблиця: 19A050501_02_014. Розподіл населення за рідною мовою, Донецька область (1,2,3,4)
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Gallery
File:Братська могила радянських воїнів Південного фронту 1.JPG, Mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Shakhtarsk
File:Shakhtersk.jpg, Shakhtarsk yard
References
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Cities in Donetsk Oblast
Don Host Oblast
Populated places established in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Cities of regional significance in Ukraine
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Shakhtarsk urban hromada