Kypuche (; ) or Artemivsk (; ) is a city in

Alchevsk urban hromada Alchevsk urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Alchevsk. The hromada contains 35 settlements: 4 cities (Alchevsk, Zorynsk, Kypuche, and Perevalsk), 12 rural s ...

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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(

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. Population: It is situated in the historical and economic

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region of eastern Ukraine. The city has been under the control of

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and its proxy, the

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, since early 2014.

History

The city was founded as ''Katerynivka'' () in 1910 or 1911, in connection with the construction of nearby

coal mine Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...

s. Coal mining began in 1913. During the times of the

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, it was renamed ''Artemivsk'' after the Bolshevik figure Comrade Artyom, and assigned to

Perevalsk Raion Perevalsk Raion () was a raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, between 1939 and 2020. The administrative center of the raion was the city of Perevalsk. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was ...

. In 1938, Artemivsk received

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status. During

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, Artemivsk was occupied by

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beginning on July 12, 1942. Nine residents of the town were

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d by the occupiers, and another 177 were deported for forced labor to Germany The Nazis "methodically destroyed" the town's infrastructure, burning down buildings and flooding mines. The town was eventually liberated on September 2, 1943 by the 315th Rifle Division of the

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, and was rebuilt. In 1964, Artemivsk received city status. Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. The city has been under de-facto Russian control since the spring of 2014 as part of the

(LPR). On May 12, 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the

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, restored the name of ''Kypuche'' as part of the country's decommunization process. In 2020, the Ukrainian government abolished Perevalsk Raion, and transferred Kypuche to the newly created

. In September 2022, Russia declared the

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of Luhansk Oblast along with three other Ukrainian regions.

Demographics

In 2000, Artemivsk had a population of 10,500 people. It is a multiethnic city, with populations of

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, and

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, among other groups, living in it. The exact composition was as folows:

Notable people

* Lidiya Ponomarenko (1922–2013), Ukrainian historian *

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(born 1950), Ukrainian politician

Economy

Kypuche's major industry is coal mining. Southeast of the town, the important power grid node ''Donbass-750'' is located.

References

External links

http://factfinder.census.gov
Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the Russian Empire Populated places established in 1910 Soviet toponymy in Ukraine 1910 establishments in Ukraine Alchevsk urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub