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20-641: Vuhlehirsk is a district-level city in the Donetsk region, subordinated to the Yenakiieve city council. Vuhlehirsk is located in the south-eastern part of Ukraine at the distance of 61 km from the regional centre of Donetsk and 750 km from the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. Its official date of foundation is 1879 – the year of the opening of the Khatsepetivka railway station (Vuhlehirsk was called Khatsepetivka village until 1958). On 11 December 2014,

40-568: A man-made disaster and save the lives of the townspeople." The work of the treasury and banking system was completely stopped in the city, and the activities of a number of enterprises were suspended. There is a shortage of products. On 18 November, the first hunger strike took place in the city. On 14 November, Yenakiieve was included in the list of settlements in the East of Ukraine, where the Ukrainian authorities are temporarily not operating. At

60-550: A result of ruin after World War I and the Civil War of 1919–1921, Petrovsky plant was the only one producing steel. By 1925 the population in Yenakiieve was 34,000, and it was referred to as a town. In 1928, the town was renamed into Rykovo, after Soviet party- and statesman Alexei Rykov . After Rykov was arrested in 1937 the town was renamed Ordzhonikidze after another Soviet leader, Sergo Ordzhonikidze . The name Yenakiieve

80-615: Is a major employer of the city Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine . The works is located in the vicinity of the railway station Yenakiieve and is 60 km from Donetsk . A trade blockade by Ukrainian activists during the War in Donbas has all but halted production since February 2017. On 1 March 2017 the separatist Donetsk People's Republic nationalized (along with all Ukrainian enterprises located in territory it controlled)

100-648: The Battle of Debaltseve . The city was transferred to Horlivka Raion in July 2020, however, the pro-Russian occupation authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic do not recognize this new status. Vuhlehirsk formerly had a tram and trolleybus system. Its tramway system operated from 10 November 1958 to 28 June 1980 and was serviced by KTM/KTP-1 trams and a few KTM/KTP-2 trams. Its trolleybus network operated from 8 July 1982 to 12 August 2014. The contact network

120-548: The Krynka River about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk . Its population is approximately 76,673 (2022 estimate). Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal mining , metallurgy , chemical production and manufacturing . The city's outdated industry has caused accidents like that of a gas explosion which occurred in June 2008 at one of Yenakiieve's coal mines. Yenakiieve

140-549: The Ukrainian Census of 2001 : Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001 : Yenakiieve Yenakiieve ( Ukrainian : Єнакієве , pronounced [jeˈnɑ.k⁽ʲ⁾i.je.we] ; Russian : Енакиево , romanized :  Yenakiyevo ) is a city and the nominal administrative center of Yenakiieve urban hromada in the Horlivka Raion , Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine . The city stands on

160-527: The National Economy —an object « Klivazh ». In 2002 the mine was closed as non-perspective and environmentalists worried about the danger of filling the mine with water. It might cause radioactive pollution of the underground water, so pumps continue to pump water out of the abandoned mine. During the war in Donbas the city was captured by pro-Russian separatists when on 13 April 2014 pro-Russian activists captured its town hall and declared that

180-673: The Sofiyevsky coal mine opened there. At the same time the Petrovsky cast-iron plant was built, today known as the Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works . In 1895, engineers F. Yenakiev and B. Yalovetsky and several Belgian businessmen founded a Russian-Belgian metallurgic company which by 1897 constructed the new Petrovsky cast-iron plant around Fyodorovka. Coal mines were opened around the plant. Settlements were formed near them and in 1898 they were united into one called Enakievsky after

200-422: The city municipality of Vuhlehirsk, including the city of Vuhlehirsk, five other settlements (Bulavyne, Hrozne, Kayutyne, Krasny Pakhar, Savelivka), and two town municipalities (Olkhovatske and Bulavynske), were transferred from Yenakiieve Municipality to Bakhmut Raion . In February 2015, during the war in Donbas , the city was captured by separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic during

220-507: The city was part of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic . On 7 August 2014, separatists shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 in the sky over Yenakiieve, presumably from the Buk complex provided by the Russian side; the pilot tried to divert the plane away from residential areas. On 13 August, the metallurgical plant was stopped, according to a statement from the management, "in order to prevent

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240-520: The company. The Commercial Court of Donetsk Oblast declared the enterprise bankrupt in July 2019. The enterprise has more than 100 years' working experience. November 1897 - The first blast furnace was blown and first cast iron produced. This date is considered to be the date when Petrovskiy (Yenakiievskiy) steel works was established. Another blast furnace, Bessemer, and rail rolling shops were introduced in December. 1898 - The surrounding area

260-474: The destruction of a hospital. Apparently no convictions were registered, and by 1954 all Italian POWs were returned to Italy. In the 1950s, several plants were put into operation: of ferro-concrete items, of construction material, of house building and automobile-repair. On 16 September 1979, on the territory near Yenakiieve in the mine « Yuny Communar » there was one of the Nuclear Explosions for

280-506: The expanding steel mills' runoff and pollution. One of the oldest metallurgical factories of Ukraine — the Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works operates in Yenakiieve. The city is known as the birthplace of the former President of Ukraine , Viktor Yanukovych (in office 2010–2014) and his son, who was the People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2014. Permanent settlements on the territory of present-day Yenakiieve were founded in 1783. In 1858,

300-572: The founder of the Russian-Belgian metallurgic society. The writer A. I. Kuprin, who worked at the plant in 1896, described workers’ lives in the story “Molokh”. Before World War I several plants were built in Yenakiieve: coke chemical, brick, beer brewing and butter making. The Petrovsky plant became one of the largest metallurgic plants (3rd place) in southern Russia. In 1913 it produced 349,200 tons of cast-iron and 316,400 tons of steel. As

320-434: The time of the 2001 Ukrainian Census , the population of Yenakiieve was 104,266. Its composition was as follows: Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works , Public Joint Stock Company (PJSC) “Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works” (ticker EMZ) is an integrated steelmaking enterprise comprising OJSC Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works and JV Metalen LLC. Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works (Yenakiieve Steel)

340-533: Was destroyed by the war in Donbas, a year after the successful addition of another trolleybus on the route, for a maximum of two vehicles during the peak. The city's population was 10,309 in 2001. The majority of the town's population is ethnic Ukrainian , while Russians make up the second largest group in the city. In terms of native languages, a majority considers Russian to be their first language, while 40% speak Ukrainian natively. Other spoken languages are Belarusian and Armenian . Ethnic composition as of

360-543: Was founded in 1898 when numerous workers' settlements around the Peter's Iron and Steel Works were united into a single settlement named after Fyodor Yenakiyev  [ ru ] . Its first coal mines dated from 1883. The settlement was incorporated as a city in 1925. By 1958, the city and factories had expanded significantly and overtook the outlying villages of Simyukuo, Yevrah, and Tsiminyenny, all of which were resettled in their entirety when local livestock could not survive

380-598: Was named Yenakiieve after the name of engineer Fedir Yenakiev  [ uk ] . 1914 - A total of 6 blast furnaces and 7 open-hearth furnace, 2 converters, 8 rolling mills were operating at the steel works. 1931 - First domestic casting machine was introduced. 1938 - First sintering plant was launched 1968 - The steel works received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour . Key types of products producing at Yenakiyeve Steel: Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works

400-649: Was returned to the town in 1943. By 1939 the population of the town was 88,200. During World War II Yenakiieve was under siege from Italian army auxiliary units that were seconded to the German Army. They were followed by German units. The city was attacked from 31 October 1941 and not freed until 3 September 1943. Street fighting was fierce between the end of November and beginning of December 1941. “Recruitment” of civilians as Ostarbeiter began in December 1941. In 1950, about twelve Italian POWs (prisoners of war) were put on trial, over atrocities in Yenakiieve including

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