Zymohiria (; ) is a small city in

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: ...

, Luhansk Oblast (

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) of

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. Residence of

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 ...

. Population: , . Since 2014, Zymohiria has been under the occupation of the self-proclaimed

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. On 27 June 2022, during a full-scale war, an ammunition depot of the occupation forces located in the village caught fire and then exploded. The day before, a similar fire at an ammunition depot occurred in the temporarily occupied

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and Khrustalne. Later it became known that the warehouse was hit by the Ukrainian military with high-precision rockets from HIMARS systems.

Geography

The town is located on both sides of the river

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(a tributary of the

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), 15 kilometers from the former district center of

Slovianoserbsk Slovianoserbsk (; or Slavianoserbsk, ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement in Zymohiria urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district), Luhansk Oblast (oblast, region), Ukraine, on the Donets river. ...

. Zymohiria railway station on the Lyman-Rodakove line. It stretches for 17 kilometers from east to west and 8 kilometers from south to north. The area is 49.5 square kilometers. Neighboring settlements: Khoroshe and Petrovenky villages (upstream of Luhany) in the northwest, Novohryhorivka and Smile in the north, Stepove, Dovhe and the village of Slovianoserbsk in the northeast, Novodachne and Sukhodil villages, Krasnyi Luch and Zamostia (downstream of Luhany) in the east, the villages of Rodakove, Bile, Yurivka in the southeast, Lotykove and Mykhailivka in the south, the village of Petrivka, the villages of Kryvorizhzhia, Lozivskyi, Karpaty in the southwest, and Yasnodolsk in the west.

Demographics

Ethnic and linguistic composition of Zymohiria:

Notable people

* Oleksiy Semenenko (born 1958), Ukrainian journalist

References

Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Slavyanoserbsky Uyezd Zymohiria urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub