Volodarsk
Володарськ
Urban-type settlement
Volodarsk is located in Luhansk Oblast
Volodarsk
Volodarsk
Location of Volodarsk within Luhansk Oblast#Location of Volodarsk within Ukraine
Volodarsk is located in Ukraine
Volodarsk
Volodarsk
Volodarsk (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°07′27″N 39°35′08″E / 48.12417°N 39.58556°E / 48.12417; 39.58556
Country Ukraine
Oblast Luhansk Oblast
RaionDovzhansk Raion
HromadaDovzhansk urban hromada
Founded1907
Elevation
[1]
274 m (899 ft)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total2,727
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
92823
Area code+380 6434

Volodarsk (Ukrainian: Володарськ) or Vedmezhe (Ukrainian: Ведмеже) is an urban-type settlement in Dovzhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Population: 2,727 (2022 estimate)[2]

History

The town has its origins in 1905, when an unnamed worker's settlement grew up around a mine named after the Marxist revolutionary V. Volodarsky. In 1923, it officially received the name Volodarsk. In 1938, it received urban-type settlement status.[3]

During the war in Donbas, the town has been occupied by pro-Russian militants. In 2016, the Ukrainian government renamed Volodarsk to Vedmezhe as part of decommunization in Ukraine.[4] In June 2020, the town was assigned to Dovzhansk urban hromada.[5]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 3,208 people.[3] Their native languages were:[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Volodarsk (Luhansk Oblast)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 Дроздов, В. В. (1 February 2006). Володарськ (in Ukrainian). Vol. 5. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
  4. ↑ "Сельская декоммунизация: Какие населенные пункты переименовала Рада". 112ua.tv. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Кабінет Міністрів України - Про визначення адміністративних центрів та затвердження територій територіальних громад Луганської області". www.kmu.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua
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