Zolotarivka () is a village in eastern Ukraine, located in

Sievierodonetsk Raion Sievierodonetsk Raion (; ) or Siverskodonetsk Raion () is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the c ...

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast (; ), also referred to as Luhanshchyna (), is the easternmost Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the n ...

. It is close to Verkhniokamianka and the

Lysychansk Oil Refinery PJSC Lysychansk Oil Investment Company is the second largest oil refinery in Ukraine, capable of refining 16 million tons of oil per year. It is located at Verkhnokamianka, Luhansk Oblast, about 10 km from the outskirts of Lysychansk city. Russi ...

History

During the

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

in 1932–33, at least 82 villagers were confirmed to have died from

starvation Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage and eventually, de ...

. During the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

, the village was captured by Russian forces in early July 2022, Ukrainian forces claimed to have retaken the village.

Demographics

The native language distribution of the population is as follows: Ukrainian: 80.03%

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

: 18.38% Others: 0.32%

References

Погода в селі Золотарівка
(Archived) Villages in Sievierodonetsk Raion {{Luhansk-geo-stub