Zorynsk (Ukrainian: Зоринськ), is a city in Alchevsk urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine. Population: 7,096 (2022 estimate)[1]. 7,331 (2013 est.)[2]
Zorynsk | |
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.svg)  Zorynsk  Zorynsk | |
| Coordinates: 48°25′00″N 38°37′00″E / 48.4167°N 38.6167°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Luhansk Oblast |
| Raion | Alchevsk Raion |
| Hromada | Alchevsk urban hromada |
| City status on | 1963 |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.68 km2 (3.35 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total |  7,096 |
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Zorynsk has been a city since 1963. From 2014 on, and the War in Donbas (2014–2022), Zorynsk has been controlled by the Luhansk People's Republic.[3] Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the territory as part of their LNR / LPR.
On 12 June 2020, in accordance with the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 717-r "On the determination of administrative centers and approval of territories of territorial communities of the Luhansk Oblast", it became part of the Alchevsk urban hromada.[4]
On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of Perevalsk Raion, it became part of Alchevsk Raion.[5]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
- ^ "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 2022-02-22.
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-12-29.
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