Slovianoserbsk (; or Slavianoserbsk, ) is a

rural settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

Zymohiria urban hromada Zymohiria urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Zymohiria. The hromada contains 22 settlements: 1 city ( Zymohiria), 6 rural settlements ( Ivanivske, Kryvorizhz ...

Alchevsk Raion Alchevsk Raion (; ) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is in the town of Alchevsk. Population: ...

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, on the

Donets The Seversky Donets () or Siverskyi Donets (), usually simply called the Donets (), is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine (Kharkiv ...

river. Its population is ,

History

The settlement was founded by Orthodox Christian settlers from the

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as part of the

Slavo-Serbia Slavo-Serbia or Slaveno-Serbia was a territory of Imperial Russia from 1753 to 1764. It was located to the south of the Donets River, between the Bakhmutka River and Luhan River. This area today is located within present-day Luhansk Oblast a ...

colony in 1753. It was originally a military settlement known as Pidhirne (; ), its purpose to protect the southern frontier of the

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from

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in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ...

. It was granted town status in 1784 and renamed to Donetske (; ). It was the county seat of Donets county from 1764 to 1796. MapSlavyanoserbsk1817-1924

In 1817, due to frequent floods, the town was moved, and renamed to Slovianoserbsk. Also in 1817 it became again a county seat, and both the town and county were renamed to Slavianoserbsk. In 1870, the town had a population of 3,156. It hosted three annual

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s in the late 19th century. A local newspaper has been published in the city since March 1939. During

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, in 1942–1943, the German occupiers operated a prison in the town. In 1964, Slovianoserbsk received urban-type settlement designation, and in 1966 it became the center of

Slovianoserbsk Raion Slovianoserbsk Raion () was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight with the Ra ...

. Since 2014, Slovianoserbsk has been controlled by the separatist troops of the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

and their Russian supporters. In 2020, the Ukrainian government abolished Slovianoserbsk Raion, and now considers the town to be part of

. However, the internationally unrecognised Luhansk People's Republic continues to use the pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine.

Demographics

According to the

2001 census in Ukraine The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Yuriy Klymenko Yuriy Yuriyovyvch Klymenko (; born on 31 March 1973) is a Ukrainian politician and activist who was the Acting Governor of Luhansk Oblast in 2015. He had served as the deputy head of the Luhansk Regional Civil-Military Administration. Biography ...

(born 1973), Ukrainian politician

References

Rural settlements in Alchevsk Raion Populated places established in 1753 Slavo-Serbia Slavyanoserbsky Uyezd Zymohiria urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub