Zolote ( uk, Золотé; russian: Золотóе; lit. «Golden») is a city in

Sievierodonetsk Raion Sievierodonetsk Raion ( uk, Сєвєродонецький район, russian: Северодонецкий район) is a raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative division ...

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(

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) of

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. Population: . The town consists of villages that were merged to create Zolote. Currently these villages are numbered in a sequence from Zolote 1 to Zolote 5. Before the creation of Zolote they were named Karbonit, Rodina, Stakhanovets, Maryvka and Partyzansky. During the

War in Donbass War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular ...

the Ukrainian authorities lost control over parts of Zolote to the self proclaimed

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed ...

(LPR). Zolote-5 (formally named Maryvka) became under full control of the LPR. Zolote-4 (Patrizansky) and Zolote-3 (Stakhanovets) became situated in the " gray zone" between the warring parties. On 30 June 2018 the

Ukrainian army The Ukrainian Ground Forces ( uk, Сухопу́тні військá Збрóйних сил Украї́ни), also known as the Ukrainian Army, are the land forces of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They we ...

took full control of Zolote-4,Head of Zolote in Donbas: Gray zone shrinks with liberated village

UNIAN The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News ( uk, Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН, translit=Ukrayins'ke Nezalezhne Informatsiyne Ahentstvo Novyn) is a ...

(2 July 2018) although Ukrainian activists stated that the village takeover was staged, as according to them Ukrainian soldiers had been in the zone since 2014. On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of Luhansk Oblast, the

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made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, the towns of

Hirske Hirske (), or Gorskoye (), is a city in the Sievierodonetsk Raion of the Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Population: . History Starting mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast; including Hirske. On ...

and Zolote and the urban-type settlements of

Nyzhnie Nyzhnie ( ua, Нижнє, pl, Butelka Niżna) is a village (''selo'') in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, in south-west Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country ...

and

Toshkivka Toshkivka ( uk, Тошківка; russian: link=no, Тошковка) is an urban-type settlement in Sievierodonetsk Raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 30 km WNW from the centre of Luhansk city. Population: H ...

were transferred from

Pervomaisk Municipality Pervomaisk (, ) is a city in the Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, on the left bank of the Luhan River. Since 2014, the city has been controlled by the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. The population in 2001 was 38,800, which fell ...

to Popasna Raion. Zolote came under the ''de facto'' control of the

on 23 June 2022. It was claimed that around 2,000 Ukrainian troops were surrounded in the town before its capture during the battle of Donbas.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001 (this list contains

controlled areas as well): *

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

50.34% *

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

43.93% * Belarusian 0.35%

References

Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the Russian Empire {{Luhansk-geo-stub