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class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Salt mine tourism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Salt_mine_tourism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Science" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Science"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Science</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Science-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> 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href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8D%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Салэдар – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Салэдар" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Салядар – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Салядар" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%81" title="Σολεντάρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σολεντάρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1" title="سولدار – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سولدار" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%A1%D6%80" title="Սոլեդար – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սոլեդար" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Соледар – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Соледар" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="სოლედარი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სოლედარი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledara" title="Soledara – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Soledara" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledaras" title="Soledaras – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Soledaras" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AC%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB" title="ソレダル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ソレダル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Соледар – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Соледар" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%C5%82edar" title="Sołedar – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sołedar" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Соледар – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Соледар" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Соледар – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Соледар" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soledar" title="Soledar – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Soledar" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80" title="Соледар – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Соледар" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a 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style="padding-top:0.2em"></div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of Ukraine</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Soledar&params=48_41_43_N_38_04_03_E_region:UA-14_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">48°41′43″N</span> <span class="longitude">38°04′03″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">48.69528°N 38.06750°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">48.69528; 38.06750</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Ukraine" title="Oblasts of Ukraine">Oblast</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Oblast" title="Donetsk Oblast">Donetsk Oblast</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Raions_of_Ukraine" title="Raions of Ukraine">Raion</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bakhmut_Raion" title="Bakhmut Raion">Bakhmut Raion</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Hromada" title="Hromada">Hromada</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Soledar_urban_hromada" title="Soledar urban hromada">Soledar urban hromada</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Foundation</th><td class="infobox-data">Late 17th century</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">City status</th><td class="infobox-data">1965</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">14.108 km<sup>2</sup> (5.447 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">100 m (300 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(January 2022)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">10,490</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2023)</div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">740/km<sup>2</sup> (1,900/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postal_code" title="Postal code">Postal code</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">84545–84548</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">+380 6274</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Classification_of_objects_of_the_administrative-territorial_system_of_Ukraine" title="Classification of objects of the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine">KOATUU</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">1420910800</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="11" data-overlays="["_137d687a5aa3e99e1b1b93535d5cb415cc19979a"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Soledar&revid=1257874889&groups=_137d687a5aa3e99e1b1b93535d5cb415cc19979a" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,a,a,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Soledar&revid=1257874889&groups=_137d687a5aa3e99e1b1b93535d5cb415cc19979a 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Soledar</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Соледар</span>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="uk-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Ukrainian" title="Help:IPA/Ukrainian">[soɫeˈdɑr]</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Соледар</span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[səlʲɪˈdar]</a></span>; <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">gift of salt</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>) is a destroyed city in <a href="/wiki/Bakhmut_Raion" title="Bakhmut Raion">Bakhmut Raion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Oblast" title="Donetsk Oblast">Donetsk Oblast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>. Situated in the <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a> region of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine">eastern Ukraine</a>, the city was formerly highly important for its salt mining industry, from which its name Soledar is derived. The last estimate of its population before its destruction was 10,490, in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022popdemo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-France24_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France24-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1925 until 1991, it was known as <b>Karlo-Libknekhtovsk</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the German socialist <a href="/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" title="Karl Liebknecht">Karl Liebknecht</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Soledar" title="Battle of Soledar">Battle of Soledar</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, Soledar was completely destroyed and depopulated by <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> forces, who have occupied the ruins of the city and the surrounding area since January 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-dnr_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnr-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding">Founding</h3></div> <p>During the second half of the 17th century, the <a href="/wiki/Don_Cossacks" title="Don Cossacks">Don Cossacks</a> settled in the region of <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a>, building a village at the site what is now known as of Soledar and naming it Brіantsіvka (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Брянцівка</span>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Брянцовка</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salt mining on an industrial scale began in the settlement in 1881,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by which time it was part of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EnglishDW_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnglishDW-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the following years, the scale of salt mining increased, and hundreds of workers came to work in the mines, and settle in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3></div> <p>In 1925, during the Soviet period, several mining villages in the area were administratively merged into a new village named <i>Karlo-Libknekhtovsk</i><sup id="cite_ref-ssr_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssr-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the German socialist <a href="/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" title="Karl Liebknecht">Karl Liebknecht</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GED_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GED-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dw_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Karlo-Libnekhtovsk was occupied by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> starting in October 1941. <a href="/wiki/Soviet_partisans" title="Soviet partisans">Soviet partisans</a> sabotaged the mines and factories as to not let the Nazis take advantage of them. The village was eventually liberated by the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Red Army</a> in September 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-ssr_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ssr-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The salt mines were later restored and returned to full functionality.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1965, Karlo-Libknekhtovsk received the status of a city.<sup id="cite_ref-EnglishDW_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnglishDW-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 1991, Karlo-Libknekhtovsk changed its name to <i>Soledar</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This name literally means "a gift of salt" in the Russian language,<sup id="cite_ref-EnglishDW_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnglishDW-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reflecting its prominent salt-mining industry.<sup id="cite_ref-France24_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France24-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 2,500 local people, approximately 1 in 4 of the settlement's population, were employed either in the salt mine, or related industries.<sup id="cite_ref-Artemsil_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Artemsil-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russo-Ukrainian_War">Russo-Ukrainian War</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="War_in_Donbas">War in Donbas</h4></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas" title="War in Donbas">War in Donbas</a></div> <p>In February 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Russophilia" title="Russophilia">pro-Russian</a> Ukrainian President <a href="/wiki/Victor_Yanukovych" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Yanukovych">Victor Yanukovych</a> was removed from power as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Euromaidan" title="Euromaidan">Euromaidan</a> protests and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity" title="Revolution of Dignity">Revolution of Dignity</a>. This caused a <a href="/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine" title="2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine">backlash in southern and eastern Ukraine</a>. In mid-April 2014, <a href="/wiki/Russian_people%27s_militias_in_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian people's militias in Ukraine">local pro-Russian militias</a>, refusing to recognise the new government, took control of swathes of settlements across the Donbas and proclaimed the creation of two <a href="/wiki/Breakaway_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Breakaway state">breakaway states</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk People's Republic</a> (DPR) and the <a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk People's Republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soledar would remain under the control of pro-Russian rebels for around 3 months, without being a central theatre of events, as nearby <a href="/wiki/Sloviansk" title="Sloviansk">Sloviansk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donetsk" title="Donetsk">Donetsk</a> were.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 21 July 2014, Ukrainian forces announced that they had retaken Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-bloody_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloody-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 2014–2022 years of the war in Donbas, Soledar was peaceful, and not a theatre of conflict. However, the events of 2014 accelerated Soledar's population decline, which fell from 14,600 in 1971 to 10,490 at the beginning of 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-giantmine_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-giantmine-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2014, Soledar was used as the base for the identification team and <a href="/wiki/OSCE" class="mw-redirect" title="OSCE">OSCE</a> observers dealing with the <a href="/wiki/MH17" class="mw-redirect" title="MH17">MH17</a> plane crash due to its proximity to the site.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 14 January 2015, the body of Ivan Reznichenko, a local council politician missing since June 2014, was found. The press service of political party <a href="/wiki/Batkivshchyna" title="Batkivshchyna">Batkivshchyna</a> said the criminals who killed him, who were now in custody, had been ordered to do so by the pro-Russian separatists while they controlled Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Soledar" title="Battle of Soledar">Battle of Soledar</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_Soledar,_September_25,_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg/220px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg/330px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg/440px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1672" data-file-height="1254" /></a><figcaption>A ruined building in Soledar in September 2022</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_Soledar,_September_25,_2022_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg/220px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg/330px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg/440px-Battle_of_Soledar%2C_September_25%2C_2022_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Destroyed houses in Soledar</figcaption></figure> <p>During the full-scale <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, on 28 May 2022, it was reported that a Russian missile had hit the <a href="/wiki/Artemsil" title="Artemsil">Artemsil</a> salt plant in Soledar. The company's facilities and equipment were destroyed, its building left in ruins. It was the first time the company had closed since World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the month, Artemsil was forced to stop production due to constant Russian shelling.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Artemsil_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Artemsil-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2022, <a href="/wiki/France_24" title="France 24">France 24</a> reported that Soledar was under constant shelling and was largely destroyed, with the remaining population of 2,000 people experiencing a dire living situation. "There are no more local authorities, no police, no doctors, no pharmacy. Everyone has left. We've been abandoned," a local resident said.<sup id="cite_ref-France24_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France24-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By August 2022, Soledar was estimated as "90 percent destroyed".<sup id="cite_ref-Soledarfacts_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Soledarfacts-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Soledar" title="Battle of Soledar">battle of Soledar</a> began in intensity in early August 2022. In mid-August 2022, Soledar was visited by Ukrainian president <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky" class="mw-redirect" title="Volodymyr Zelensky">Volodymyr Zelensky</a>, who handed out state awards to Ukrainian soldiers there, and stated to them: "You will definitely win, and thanks to you, the whole of Ukraine will win".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet by September, Russian forces had captured much of the eastern half of Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Russia's momentum seemed to have stalled towards the end of 2022, however starting on 27 December 2022, the Russian <a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group">Wagner Group</a> began a breakthrough attempt to take the settlement and return it to the control of the Donetsk People Republic, which by then had been <a href="/wiki/Russian_annexation_of_Donetsk,_Kherson,_Luhansk_and_Zaporizhzhia_oblasts" title="Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts">annexed by Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBC-1/11_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC-1/11-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The battle descended into heavy attritional fighting, and was called the "most bloody battle" of the war at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-bloody_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloody-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ukraine evacuated the remaining civilians of Soledar at the start of January, as Russia's Wagner forces moved in.<sup id="cite_ref-SoledarMines_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoledarMines-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 11, 2023, after days of uncertainty as to whether Russia controlled the city, it was reported that Russia had definitively secured control of Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the battle, the settlement was almost entirely destroyed, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying that "barely any walls in Soledar remain[ed] standing".<sup id="cite_ref-RuClaimBBC_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RuClaimBBC-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Donetsk Oblast governor <a href="/wiki/Pavlo_Kyrylenko" title="Pavlo Kyrylenko">Pavlo Kyrylenko</a>, of the pre-invasion population of 10,490,<sup id="cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022popdemo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> only "559 civilians including 15 children" remained in the settlement by 13 January.<sup id="cite_ref-RuClaimBBC_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RuClaimBBC-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Analysts were divided over the value of Soledar, with some stating that a Russian victory in Soledar would be "<a href="/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory" title="Pyrrhic victory">pyrrhic</a> at best".<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_13012023_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_13012023-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the capture of Soledar, Russia's first territorial gain since July 2022, gave Russia both a morale-boosting victory and territorial gain, arresting the pattern of Russian military reverses in the second half of 2022. Russian forces used Soledar as a staging post to press onto <a href="/wiki/Bakhmut" title="Bakhmut">Bakhmut</a>, which they took several months later, in May 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EnglishDW_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnglishDW-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Soledarfacts_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Soledarfacts-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the following months, Russia reported periodic Ukrainian attacks on Soledar, which it claimed to have repelled. Soledar remains in ruins, and as of 2024 is believed to be completely or nearly unpopulated.<sup id="cite_ref-Alarabiya_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alarabiya-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_(2)_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png/220px-Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png/330px-Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png/440px-Soledar%27s_salty_lakes_%282%29_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption> View of the lakes and the landscape near Soledar</figcaption></figure> <p>Situated in the traditionally industrial <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a> region within <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine">eastern Ukraine</a>, Soledar is located 18 km (11 mi) from the city of <a href="/wiki/Bakhmut" title="Bakhmut">Bakhmut</a>, 40 km (25 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Sloviansk" title="Sloviansk">Sloviansk</a>, 78 km (48 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Donetsk" title="Donetsk">Donetsk</a>, and 580 km (360 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>. </p><p>There is a group of lakes on the edge of Soledar, some with a diameter of 100 metres (330 ft). Some of them have an "abnormally warm temperature" that can reach up to 40 °C (104 °F). Some are <a href="/wiki/Freshwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Freshwater">freshwater</a>, while others are salty to the point that a person cannot dive deep, and gets pushed upwards.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GED_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GED-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Salt_and_gypsum">Salt and gypsum</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Soledar_Salt_Mine" title="Soledar Salt Mine">Soledar Salt Mine</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG/220px-%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG/330px-%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG/440px-%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_-_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1373" /></a><figcaption> A package of <a href="/wiki/Artemsil" title="Artemsil">Artemsil</a> salt</figcaption></figure> <p>Soledar's primary industry was the mining and processing of salt. Salt company Artemsil, founded in 1976, was the former owner of Soledar's salt industry, and said that the salt deposits of Soledar are "almost inexhaustible.... in 300 years of exploitation, the salt reserves have only decreased by one percent."<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were estimated to be 5 billion tonnes of salt reserves in the Soledar salt mines, with the Soledar salt mine regarded as the largest salt mine in Europe. However Artemsil is now defunct, and the Soledar salt mine has not been in operation since May 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-giantmine_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-giantmine-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BI_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reuters-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WSJ11012023_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ11012023-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, the mine provided around 95% of Ukraine's salt.<sup id="cite_ref-giantmine_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-giantmine-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outside of Ukraine, the company exported salt to 22 countries, mostly in the <a href="/wiki/Post-Soviet_states" title="Post-Soviet states">former Soviet sphere</a>, but also about 40 percent to Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-SoledarMines_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoledarMines-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussiaBan_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussiaBan-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> had been an important export destination in particular, with Artemsil having a 24 percent share of the Russian salt market until January 2015, when Russia suspended imports from the company due to the war in Donbas.<sup id="cite_ref-SaltOfTheEarth_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaltOfTheEarth-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussiaBan_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussiaBan-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2022, with the situation deteriorating in Soledar, Artemsil evacuated some of their workers, others left Soledar by their own means. Production of Artemsil salt stopped entirely in May 2022, and after existing supplies were exhausted, by summer of 2022 Artemsil salt was no longer to be found on shop shelves. In winter of 2022, the shafts of one of the mines were destroyed in the fighting, making the mine, at a depth of around 260 metres (850 ft) below the ground, inaccessible.<sup id="cite_ref-SoledarMines_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoledarMines-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A spokesperson for Ukraine’s Donetsk regional state administration said, in early 2023, that three of the main four caves of the mine have been damaged. After the Russian capture of the city, Donetsk People's Republic head Pushilin, in his late January 2023 visit, stated that the salt mines were "damaged and difficult to descend into". Pushilin has pledged that the salt mines will, in time, be restored, however there have been no further updates on this. There is no timetable for the resumption of tourist activities in the mines.<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersPushlin_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersPushlin-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SoledarMines_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SoledarMines-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is also an abundance of <a href="/wiki/Gypsum" title="Gypsum">gypsum</a> in Soledar, which was previously mined, as it is useful for construction materials.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Germany-based company <a href="/wiki/Knauf_Gips_Donbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Knauf Gips Donbas">Knauf Gips Donbas</a> owns a factory in Soledar that produced <a href="/wiki/Plasterboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Plasterboard">plasterboard</a>, and into which they invested tens of millions of dollars. The factory closed in early 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Salt_mine_tourism">Salt mine tourism</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG/220px-The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG/330px-The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG/440px-The_lift_going_down_to_the_mine.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4416" data-file-height="3312" /></a><figcaption>Tourists at the salt mine entrance</figcaption></figure> <p>Soledar's salt-mining industry created an "underground city" of caves, and tunnels<sup id="cite_ref-BI_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Welle" title="Deutsche Welle">Deutsche Welle</a> described as a "magnet for tourists" prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Guided tours went to as deep as 200–300 metres (660–980 ft), with attractions including sculptures made of salt crystals, a museum, and a church.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The expansive tunnels have been the site of numerous publicity stunts and events, including classical music concerts, a <a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">soccer</a> match, and the first ever underground <a href="/wiki/Hot_air_balloon" title="Hot air balloon">hot air balloon</a> flight.<sup id="cite_ref-BI_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BI-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-giantmine_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-giantmine-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the early 1990s,<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the chambers have also contained "speleosanatoriums":<sup id="cite_ref-dw_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rooms made of salt that attempt to "recreate <a href="/wiki/Speleotherapy" title="Speleotherapy">the allegedly restorative conditions of salt mines</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-SaltOfTheEarth_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaltOfTheEarth-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where 100 patients with respiratory diseases are treated.<sup id="cite_ref-dw_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This practice is part of the controversial <a href="/wiki/Halotherapy" title="Halotherapy">halotherapy</a> industry, in which it is believed that the inhalation of salt dust is a "miracle cure for respiratory illnesses".<sup id="cite_ref-SaltOfTheEarth_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SaltOfTheEarth-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport">Transport<span class="anchor" id="Sil_(village)"></span><span class="anchor" id="Sil"></span></h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sol%27.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Sol%27.jpg/220px-Sol%27.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Sol%27.jpg/330px-Sol%27.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Sol%27.jpg/440px-Sol%27.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption> The Sil railway station</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sil,_Donetsk_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Sil, Donetsk Oblast">Sil</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C_(%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0)" class="extiw" title="uk:Сіль (Бахмутська міська рада)">uk</a>]</span> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Сіль</span>; <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Соль</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Russian-language romanization"><i lang="ru-Latn">Sol</i></span>, both literally translated as "Salt") railway station is located 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) northwest of the center of Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was formerly an urban-type settlement of its own until 1999 when the <a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Verkhovna Rada</a> officially declared it administratively subordinate to Soledar.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large railway station served as an essential hub station for shipping out Soledar's salt. The last shipment of Soledar salt went out in May 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Artemsil_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Artemsil-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Dekonska" class="mw-redirect" title="Dekonska">Dekonska</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0" class="extiw" title="uk:Деконська">uk</a>]</span> (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Деконська</span>) railway station, located 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) to the south of the centre of Soledar, is another formerly separate settlement that is now part of the city.<sup id="cite_ref-bse_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bse-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Science">Science</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG/220px-Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG/330px-Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG/440px-Neutrino-telescope-heart.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>A scientist in the mine</figcaption></figure> <p>From November 1977, the Artyomovsk Scintillation Detector has been located in Soledar salt mine, operating at a depth of 570 metres (1,870 ft). Its main purpose is to detect <a href="/wiki/Neutrino" title="Neutrino">neutrino</a> radiation from collapsing <a href="/wiki/Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Stars">stars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FortyYears_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FortyYears-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Search_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Search-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This location inside the salt mine was chosen because the "natural-radioactivity background in salt is approximately 300 times lower than in ordinary rock," thus minimizing radiation noise.<sup id="cite_ref-FortyYears_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FortyYears-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, a Ukrainian scientist proposed using Soledar's salt mines as a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_waste_disposal" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear waste disposal">nuclear waste disposal</a> site, believing that the inert environment would be useful. However residents of Soledar and the surrounding area, including Bakhmut, opposed the proposal, holding rallies and writing letters to authorities. Eventually, regional authorities said that the plan would not be implemented.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCua12Jan_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCua12Jan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 March 2005, the <a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Oblast_Council" title="Donetsk Oblast Council">Donetsk Oblast Council</a> gave the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Nuclear_Research" title="Institute for Nuclear Research">Institute for Nuclear Research</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Russian Academy of Sciences">Russian Academy of Sciences</a> the right to use 0.63 hectares of area in the mine and the station for research.<sup id="cite_ref-geo_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geo-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At this time, the station had 11 employees.<sup id="cite_ref-geo_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geo-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:30em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1971 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">14,600<sup id="cite_ref-bse_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bse-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1991 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">12,200<sup id="cite_ref-GED_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GED-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.89%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2001 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">13,182<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.78%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2012 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">11,799<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.00%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Per annum growth rate" class="abbr-header">±% p.a.</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2022 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">10,490<sup id="cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022popdemo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.17%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2023 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">550<sup id="cite_ref-2023Popest_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023Popest-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−94.76%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2024 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">0<sup id="cite_ref-Alarabiya_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alarabiya-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−100.00%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Soledar's population has fallen over the past few decades, from 14,600 in 1971<sup id="cite_ref-bse_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bse-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 10,490 in 2022, and only an estimated 550 as of early 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022popdemo-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2024, Soledar is believed to be unpopulated.<sup id="cite_ref-Alarabiya_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alarabiya-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In terms of ethnicity, at the time of the 2001 census, over 80% of the town's population were ethnic <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a> and notable minorities were <a href="/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine" title="Russians in Ukraine">Russians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The native language of Soledar's population, as of the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Census_(2001)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian Census (2001)">Ukrainian Census of 2001</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> 60.10%, <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> 39.43%, <a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a> 0.11%, <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language">Belarusian</a> 0.09%, <a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a> 0.05%, <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> 0.02%, <a href="/wiki/Moldovan_language" title="Moldovan language">Moldovan</a> 0.02%, and one person each for <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karaim_language" title="Karaim language">Karaim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> (0.01%).<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Ethnic groups in Soledar in 2001</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:82.22%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">82.22%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:16.18%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">16.18%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Belarusians" title="Belarusians">Belarusians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:0.34%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.34%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenians</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:brown; width:0.17%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.17%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Moldovans" title="Moldovans">Moldovans</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:pink; width:0.08%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.08%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Greeks" title="Ukrainian Greeks">Ukrainian Greeks</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:lightblue; width:0.08%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.08%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin:0; border:none;"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none; padding:0;"><div class="notheme barbox" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: white; color: black;"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Native languages in Soledar in 2001</th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;"></td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:dodgerblue; width:60.10%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">60.10%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language_in_Ukraine" title="Russian language in Ukraine">Russian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:purple; width:39.43%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">39.43%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:brown; width:0.11%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.11%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language">Belarusian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:0.09%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.09%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Romani_language" title="Romani language">Romani</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:black; width:0.05%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.05%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:turquoise; width:0.02%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.02%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">others</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:gray; width:0.03%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">0.03%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Horden_Brova" title="Horden Brova">Horden Brova</a>, volleyball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_N._Fedorov" title="Peter N. Fedorov">Peter N. Fedorov</a>, astronomer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Stetsenko_(swimmer)" title="Anna Stetsenko (swimmer)">Anna Stetsenko</a>, Paralympic swimmer</li></ul> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Карло-Либкнехтовск</span>; <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Карло-Лібкнехтівськ</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ukrainian-language romanization"><i lang="uk-Latn">Karlo-Libknekhtivsk</i></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2022popdemo-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-2022popdemo_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220810155123/https://ukrstat.gov.ua/druk/publicat/kat_u/2022/zb/05/zb_%D0%A1huselnist.pdf">"Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>ukrstat.gov.ua</i>. p. 16. 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title="Kurdiumivka">Kurdiumivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luhanske,_Bakhmut_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Luhanske, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast">Luhanske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myronivskyi" title="Myronivskyi">Myronivskyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahirne,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Nahirne, Donetsk Oblast">Nahirne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelipivka" title="Nelipivka">Nelipivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York,_Ukraine" title="New York, Ukraine">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novoluhanske" title="Novoluhanske">Novoluhanske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opytne,_Bakhmut_Raion" class="mw-redirect" title="Opytne, Bakhmut Raion">Opytne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrivka,_Bakhmut_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrivka, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast">Petrivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pidhorodne,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Pidhorodne, Donetsk Oblast">Pidhorodne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pivdenne,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Pivdenne, Donetsk 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title="Dubovo-Vasylivka">Dubovo-Vasylivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fedorivka,_Bakhmut_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Fedorivka, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast">Fedorivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hladosove" title="Hladosove">Hladosove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivanhrad" title="Ivanhrad">Ivanhrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivanivske,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Ivanivske, Donetsk Oblast">Ivanivske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klishchiivka" title="Klishchiivka">Klishchiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klynove,_Bakhmut_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Klynove, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast">Klynove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodema" title="Kodema">Kodema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krasnopolivka" title="Krasnopolivka">Krasnopolivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lozove,_Bakhmut_Raion" class="mw-redirect" title="Lozove, Bakhmut Raion">Lozove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lypove,_Bakhmut_Raion,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Lypove, Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast">Lypove</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Avdiivka_urban_hromada" title="Avdiivka urban hromada">Avdiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakhmut_urban_hromada" title="Bakhmut urban hromada">Bakhmut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilozerske_urban_hromada" title="Bilozerske urban hromada">Bilozerske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boikivske_settlement_hromada" title="Boikivske settlement hromada">Boikivske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chasiv_Yar_urban_hromada" title="Chasiv Yar urban hromada">Chasiv Yar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherkaske_settlement_hromada" title="Cherkaske settlement hromada">Cherkaske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chystiakove_urban_hromada" title="Chystiakove urban hromada">Chystiakove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debaltseve_urban_hromada" title="Debaltseve urban hromada">Debaltseve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dobropillia_urban_hromada" title="Dobropillia urban hromada">Dobropillia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dokuchaievsk_urban_hromada" title="Dokuchaievsk urban hromada">Dokuchaievsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_urban_hromada" title="Donetsk urban hromada">Donetsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Druzhkivka_urban_hromada" title="Druzhkivka urban hromada">Druzhkivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horlivka_urban_hromada" title="Horlivka urban hromada">Horlivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrodivka_settlement_hromada" title="Hrodivka settlement hromada">Hrodivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinivka_rural_hromada" title="Illinivka rural hromada">Illinivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilovaisk_urban_hromada" title="Ilovaisk urban hromada">Ilovaisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalchyk_rural_hromada" title="Kalchyk rural hromada">Kalchyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmiuske_urban_hromada" title="Kalmiuske urban hromada">Kalmiuske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khartsyzk_urban_hromada" title="Khartsyzk urban hromada">Khartsyzk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khlibodarivka_rural_hromada" title="Khlibodarivka rural hromada">Khliobodarivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khrestivka_urban_hromada" title="Khrestivka urban hromada">Khrestivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komar_rural_hromada" title="Komar rural hromada">Komar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kostiantynivka_urban_hromada" title="Kostiantynivka urban hromada">Kostiantynivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kramatorsk_urban_hromada" title="Kramatorsk urban hromada">Kramatorsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kryvorizhzhia_rural_hromada" title="Kryvorizhzhia rural hromada">Kryvorizhzhia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurakhove_urban_hromada" title="Kurakhove urban hromada">Kurakhove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman_urban_hromada" title="Lyman urban hromada">Lyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makiivka#Subdivisions_and_local_government" title="Makiivka">Makiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhush_settlement_hromada" title="Manhush settlement hromada">Manhush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinka_urban_hromada" title="Marinka urban hromada">Marinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariupol_urban_hromada" title="Mariupol urban hromada">Mariupol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykolaivka_urban_hromada" title="Mykolaivka urban hromada">Mykolaivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrne_settlement_hromada,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Myrne settlement hromada, Donetsk Oblast">Myrne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrnohrad_urban_hromada" title="Myrnohrad urban hromada">Myrnohrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolske_settlement_hromada" title="Nikolske settlement hromada">Nikolske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novoazovsk_urban_hromada" title="Novoazovsk urban hromada">Novoazovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novodonetske_settlement_hromada" title="Novodonetske settlement hromada">Novodonetske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novohrodivka_urban_hromada" title="Novohrodivka urban hromada">Novohrodivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocheretyne_settlement_hromada" title="Ocheretyne settlement hromada">Ocheretyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandrivka_settlement_hromada_(Kramatorsk_Raion)" title="Oleksandrivka settlement hromada (Kramatorsk Raion)">Oleksandrivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olhynka_settlement_hromada" title="Olhynka settlement hromada">Olhynka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pokrovsk_urban_hromada" title="Pokrovsk urban hromada">Pokrovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sartana_settlement_hromada" title="Sartana settlement hromada">Sartana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selydove_urban_hromada" title="Selydove urban hromada">Selydove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakhove_rural_hromada" title="Shakhove rural hromada">Shakhove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakhtarsk_urban_hromada" title="Shakhtarsk urban hromada">Shakhtarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siversk_urban_hromada" title="Siversk urban hromada">Siversk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloviansk_urban_hromada" title="Sloviansk urban hromada">Sloviansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snizhne_urban_hromada" title="Snizhne urban hromada">Snizhne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soledar_urban_hromada" title="Soledar urban hromada">Soledar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starobesheve_settlement_hromada" title="Starobesheve settlement hromada">Starobesheve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staromlynivka_rural_hromada" title="Staromlynivka rural hromada">Staromlynivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sviatohirsk_urban_hromada" title="Sviatohirsk urban hromada">Sviatohirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svitlodarsk_urban_hromada" title="Svitlodarsk urban hromada">Svitlodarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toretsk_urban_hromada" title="Toretsk urban hromada">Toretsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udachne_settlement_hromada" title="Udachne settlement hromada">Udachne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velyka_Novosilka_settlement_hromada" title="Velyka Novosilka settlement hromada">Velyka Novosilka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volnovakha_urban_hromada" title="Volnovakha urban hromada">Volnovakha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuhledar_urban_hromada" title="Vuhledar urban hromada">Vuhledar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuhlehirsk_urban_hromada" title="Vuhlehirsk urban hromada">Vuhlehirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasynuvata_urban_hromada" title="Yasynuvata urban hromada">Yasynuvata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yenakiieve_urban_hromada" title="Yenakiieve urban hromada">Yenakiieve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhdanivka_urban_hromada" title="Zhdanivka urban hromada">Zhdanivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zvanivka_rural_hromada" title="Zvanivka rural hromada">Zvanivka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Ukraine" title="List of cities in Ukraine">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amvrosiivka" title="Amvrosiivka">Amvrosiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avdiivka" title="Avdiivka">Avdiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakhmut" title="Bakhmut">Bakhmut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilozerske" title="Bilozerske">Bilozerske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bilytske" title="Bilytske">Bilytske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunhe" title="Bunhe">Bunhe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chasiv_Yar" title="Chasiv Yar">Chasiv Yar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chystiakove" title="Chystiakove">Chystiakove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debaltseve" title="Debaltseve">Debaltseve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dobropillia" title="Dobropillia">Dobropillia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dokuchaievsk" title="Dokuchaievsk">Dokuchaievsk</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Donetsk" title="Donetsk">Donetsk</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Druzhkivka" title="Druzhkivka">Druzhkivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hirnyk,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Hirnyk, Donetsk Oblast">Hirnyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horlivka" title="Horlivka">Horlivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilovaisk" title="Ilovaisk">Ilovaisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmiuske" title="Kalmiuske">Kalmiuske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khartsyzk" title="Khartsyzk">Khartsyzk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khrestivka" title="Khrestivka">Khrestivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kostiantynivka" title="Kostiantynivka">Kostiantynivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kramatorsk" title="Kramatorsk">Kramatorsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krasnohorivka" title="Krasnohorivka">Krasnohorivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurakhove" title="Kurakhove">Kurakhove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyman,_Ukraine" title="Lyman, Ukraine">Lyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makiivka" title="Makiivka">Makiivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinka,_Ukraine" title="Marinka, Ukraine">Marinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariupol" title="Mariupol">Mariupol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mospyne" title="Mospyne">Mospyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykolaivka,_Donetsk_Oblast" title="Mykolaivka, Donetsk Oblast">Mykolaivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myrnohrad" title="Myrnohrad">Myrnohrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novoazovsk" title="Novoazovsk">Novoazovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novohrodivka" title="Novohrodivka">Novohrodivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pokrovsk,_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Pokrovsk, Ukraine">Pokrovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodynske" title="Rodynske">Rodynske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selydove" title="Selydove">Selydove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakhtarsk" title="Shakhtarsk">Shakhtarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siversk" title="Siversk">Siversk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloviansk" title="Sloviansk">Sloviansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snizhne" title="Snizhne">Snizhne</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Soledar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sviatohirsk" title="Sviatohirsk">Sviatohirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svitlodarsk" title="Svitlodarsk">Svitlodarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toretsk" title="Toretsk">Toretsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainsk" title="Ukrainsk">Ukrainsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volnovakha" title="Volnovakha">Volnovakha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuhledar" title="Vuhledar">Vuhledar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuhlehirsk" title="Vuhlehirsk">Vuhlehirsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasynuvata" title="Yasynuvata">Yasynuvata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yenakiieve" title="Yenakiieve">Yenakiieve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zalizne" title="Zalizne">Zalizne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhdanivka" title="Zhdanivka">Zhdanivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zuhres" title="Zuhres">Zuhres</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="War_in_Donbas_(2014–2022)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General<br />topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_aircraft_losses_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="List of aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War">Aircraft losses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humanitarian_situation_during_the_war_in_Donbas" title="Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas">Humanitarian situation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_war_in_Donbas" title="International reactions to the war in Donbas">International reactions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War">Sanctions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_and_organizations_sanctioned_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War">Sanctioned people</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OSCE_Special_Monitoring_Mission_to_Ukraine" title="OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine">OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trilateral_Contact_Group_on_Ukraine" title="Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine">Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_volunteer_movement_helping_Ukrainian_forces_in_the_war_in_Donbas" title="Civil volunteer movement helping Ukrainian forces in the war in Donbas">Civil volunteer movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrainian_War)" title="Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)">Little green men</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-terrorist_Operation_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-terrorist Operation Zone">Anti-terrorist Operation Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil%E2%80%93military_administrations_(Ukraine)" title="Civil–military administrations (Ukraine)">Civil–military administrations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2014)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014)">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2015)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2015)">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2016)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2016)">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2017)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2017)">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2018)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2018)">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2019)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2019)">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2020)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2020)">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2021)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2021)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_war_in_Donbas_(2022)" title="Timeline of the war in Donbas (2022)">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Battles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Artemivsk" title="Battle of Artemivsk">Battle of Artemivsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Sloviansk" title="Siege of Sloviansk">Siege of Sloviansk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kramatorsk" title="Battle of Kramatorsk">Battle of Kramatorsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mariupol_(2014)" title="Battle of Mariupol (2014)">Battle of Mariupol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Sievierodonetsk_(2014)" title="Battles of Sievierodonetsk (2014)">Battles of Sievierodonetsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Karlivka" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Karlivka">Battle of Karlivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Donetsk_Airport" title="First Battle of Donetsk Airport">1st Battle of Donetsk Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_the_Luhansk_Border_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege of the Luhansk Border Base">Siege of the Luhansk Border Base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Krasnyi_Lyman" title="Battle of Krasnyi Lyman">Battle of Krasnyi Lyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelenopillia_rocket_attack" title="Zelenopillia rocket attack">Zelenopillia rocket attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_in_Shakhtarsk_Raion" title="Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion">Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Horlivka" title="Battle of Horlivka">Battle of Horlivka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ilovaisk" title="Battle of Ilovaisk">Battle of Ilovaisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novosvitlivka_refugee_convoy_attack" title="Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack">Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Novoazovsk" title="Battle of Novoazovsk">Battle of Novoazovsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offensive_on_Mariupol_(September_2014)" title="Offensive on Mariupol (September 2014)">Mariupol offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Donetsk_Airport" title="Second Battle of Donetsk Airport">2nd Battle of Donetsk Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Debaltseve" title="Battle of Debaltseve">Battle of Debaltseve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyrokyne_standoff" title="Shyrokyne standoff">Shyrokyne standoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Marinka_(2015)" title="Battle of Marinka (2015)">Battle of Marinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Svitlodarsk" title="Battle of Svitlodarsk">Battle of Svitlodarsk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Avdiivka_(2017)" title="Battle of Avdiivka (2017)">Battle of Avdiivka (2017)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br />events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums" title="2014 Donbas status referendums">Donbas status referendums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_Air_Force_Il-76_shootdown" title="2014 Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown">Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelling_of_Donetsk,_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelling of Donetsk, Russia">Shelling of Donetsk, Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Russian_cross-border_shelling_of_Ukraine" title="2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine">2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 17">MH17 shoot-down</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17_shootdown" title="International reactions to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown">reactions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_2166" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 2166">UNSC Resolution 2166</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Wales_summit" title="2014 Wales summit">NATO summit in Wales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minsk_agreements#Minsk_Protocol" title="Minsk agreements">Minsk Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Donbas_general_elections" title="2014 Donbas general elections">Donbas general elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_G20_Brisbane_summit" title="2014 G20 Brisbane summit">2014 G20 Brisbane summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volnovakha_bus_attack" title="Volnovakha bus attack">Volnovakha bus attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2015_Mariupol_rocket_attack" title="January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack">Mariupol rocket attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2015_Kramatorsk_rocket_attack" title="February 2015 Kramatorsk rocket attack">Kramatorsk rocket attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minsk_agreements#Minsk_II" title="Minsk agreements">Minsk II ceasefire agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kharkiv_bombing" title="2015 Kharkiv bombing">Kharkiv bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zakharchenko#Death" title="Alexander Zakharchenko">Assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Donbas_general_elections" title="2018 Donbas general elections">Donbas general elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_to_capitulation!" title="No to capitulation!">No to capitulation!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanytsia_Luhanska_kindergarten_bombing" title="Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing">Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Self-proclaimed<br />states</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg/45px-Flag_of_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Donetsk People's Republic">Donetsk People's Republic</a> (April 2014 – September 2022)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="Luhansk People's Republic">Luhansk People's Republic</a> (April 2014 – September 2022)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg/23px-War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg/35px-War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg/45px-War_flag_of_Novorussia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Novorossiya_(confederation)" title="Novorossiya (confederation)">Novorossiya</a> (May 2014 – May 2015) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic_and_the_Luhansk_People%27s_Republic" title="International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic">International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">(Pro-)<br />Russian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces" title="Russian Armed Forces">Russian Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagner_Group" title="Wagner Group">Wagner Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian separatist forces in Donbas">Separatist forces</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_equipment_used_by_Russian_separatist_forces_of_the_war_in_Donbas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of equipment used by Russian separatist forces of the war in Donbas">List of equipment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas#Luhansk_People's_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian separatist forces in Donbas">Army of the South-East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Army" title="Russian Orthodox Army">Russian Orthodox Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combatants_of_the_war_in_Donbas#Vostok_Battalion" title="Combatants of the war in Donbas">Vostok Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmius_Brigade" title="Kalmius Brigade">Kalmius Brigade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sparta_Battalion" title="Sparta Battalion">Sparta Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somalia_Battalion" title="Somalia Battalion">Somalia Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prizrak_Brigade" title="Prizrak Brigade">Prizrak Brigade</a></li></ul></li> <li>Political parties and movements <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donetsk_Republic_(political_party)" class="mw-redirect" title="Donetsk Republic (political party)">Donetsk Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Russia_Party" title="New Russia Party">New Russia Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Donetsk_People%27s_Republic" title="Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic">Communist Party of DPR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peace_to_Luhanshchina" class="mw-redirect" title="Peace to Luhanshchina">Peace to Luhanshchina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borotba" title="Borotba">Borotba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antifascist_Committee_of_Ukraine" title="Antifascist Committee of Ukraine">Antifascist Committee of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Choice" title="Ukrainian Choice">Ukrainian Choice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Russia_of_E._V._Limonov" title="The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov">The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Youth_Union" title="Eurasian Youth Union">Eurasian Youth Union</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_Wolves" title="Night Wolves">Night Wolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Cossacks" title="Don Cossacks">Don Cossacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency" title="Internet Research Agency">Internet Research Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Imperial_Movement" title="Russian Imperial Movement">Russian Imperial Movement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lead figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Russian <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev">Dmitry Medvedev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov" title="Vladislav Surkov">Vladislav Surkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Shoigu" title="Sergei Shoigu">Sergei Shoigu</a></li></ul></li> <li>Crimean <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Aksyonov" title="Sergey Aksyonov">Sergey Aksyonov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Konstantinov_(politician)" title="Vladimir Konstantinov (politician)">Vladimir Konstantinov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalia_Poklonskaya" title="Natalia Poklonskaya">Natalia Poklonskaya</a></li></ul></li> <li>Donetsk <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Antyufeyev" title="Vladimir Antyufeyev">Vladimir Antyufeyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Basurin" title="Eduard Basurin">Eduard Basurin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Berezin" title="Fyodor Berezin">Fyodor Berezin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Bezler" title="Igor Bezler">Igor Bezler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Borodai" title="Alexander Borodai">Alexander Borodai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Chumachenko" title="Mikhail Chumachenko">Mikhail Chumachenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Girkin" title="Igor Girkin">Igor Girkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavel_Gubarev" title="Pavel Gubarev">Pavel Gubarev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ekaterina_Gubareva" title="Ekaterina Gubareva">Ekaterina Gubareva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Khakimzyanov" title="Igor Khakimzyanov">Igor Khakimzyanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Khodakovsky" title="Alexander Khodakovsky">Alexander Khodakovsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kononov_(Donetsk_People%27s_Republic)" title="Vladimir Kononov (Donetsk People's Republic)">Vladimir Kononov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsen_Pavlov" title="Arsen Pavlov">Arsen Pavlov</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ponomarev_(public_figure)" title="Vyacheslav Ponomarev (public figure)">Vyacheslav Ponomarev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Purgin" title="Andrei Purgin">Andrei Purgin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Pushilin" title="Denis Pushilin">Denis Pushilin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tolstykh" title="Mikhail Tolstykh">Mikhail Tolstykh</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zakharchenko" title="Alexander Zakharchenko">Alexander Zakharchenko</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Zhurikov" title="Sergei Zhurikov">Sergei Zhurikov</a></li></ul></li> <li>Luhansk <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Bednov" title="Alexander Bednov">Alexander Bednov</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valery_Bolotov" title="Valery Bolotov">Valery Bolotov</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Karyakin" title="Aleksey Karyakin">Aleksey Karyakin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Kharitonov_(politician)" title="Aleksandr Kharitonov (politician)">Aleksandr Kharitonov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsen_Klinchaev" title="Arsen Klinchaev">Arsen Klinchaev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Kozlov_(politician)" title="Sergey Kozlov (politician)">Sergey Kozlov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Mozgovoy" title="Aleksey Mozgovoy">Aleksey Mozgovoy</a>†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Pasechnik" title="Leonid Pasechnik">Leonid Pasechnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Plotnitsky" title="Igor Plotnitsky">Igor Plotnitsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gennadiy_Tsypkalov" title="Gennadiy Tsypkalov">Gennadiy Tsypkalov</a>†</li></ul></li> <li>Kharkiv <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yevhen_Zhylin" title="Yevhen Zhylin">Yevhen Zhylin</a>†</li></ul></li> <li>Others <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin" title="Aleksandr Dugin">Aleksandr Dugin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelya_Shtepa" title="Nelya Shtepa">Nelya Shtepa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleg_Tsaryov" title="Oleg Tsaryov">Oleg Tsaryov</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ukrainian</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Government of Ukraine <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Yatsenyuk_government" title="First Yatsenyuk government">1st Yatsenyuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Yatsenyuk_Government" title="Second Yatsenyuk Government">2nd Yatsenyuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groysman_Government" title="Groysman Government">Groysman</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Ukraine)" title="Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)">Ministry of Internal Affairs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Guard_of_Ukraine" title="National Guard of Ukraine">National Guard</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azov_Brigade" title="Azov Brigade">Azov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donbas_Battalion" title="Donbas Battalion">Donbas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Tasks_Patrol_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Tasks Patrol Police">Patrol Police</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dnipro-1_Regiment" title="Dnipro-1 Regiment">Dnipro-1</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Ukraine" title="Armed Forces of Ukraine">Armed Forces of Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Ground_Forces" title="Ukrainian Ground Forces">Ukrainian Ground Forces</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_territorial_defence_battalions" title="Ukrainian territorial defence battalions">Territorial defense battalions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aidar_Battalion" title="Aidar Battalion">Aidar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Motorized_Infantry_Battalion_(Ukraine)" title="39th Motorized Infantry Battalion (Ukraine)">Dnipro-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_Motorized_Infantry_Battalion_(Ukraine)" title="40th Motorized Infantry Battalion (Ukraine)">Kryvbas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42nd_Motorized_Infantry_Battalion_(Ukraine)" title="42nd Motorized Infantry Battalion (Ukraine)">Rukh Oporu</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Force" title="Ukrainian Air Force">Ukrainian Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Air_Assault_Forces" title="Ukrainian Air Assault Forces">Ukrainian Air Assault Forces</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine" title="Security Service of Ukraine">Security Service of Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpha_Group_(Ukraine)" title="Alpha Group (Ukraine)">Alpha Group</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Euromaidan_Press" title="Euromaidan Press">Euromaidan Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Border_Guard_Service_of_Ukraine" title="State Border Guard Service of Ukraine">State Border Guard Service of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_volunteer_battalions" title="Ukrainian volunteer battalions">Volunteer battalions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Right_Sector" title="Right Sector">Right Sector</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lead figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko" title="Petro Poroshenko">Petro Poroshenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov" title="Oleksandr Turchynov">Oleksandr Turchynov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arseniy_Yatsenyuk" title="Arseniy Yatsenyuk">Arseniy Yatsenyuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Groysman" title="Volodymyr Groysman">Volodymyr Groysman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy" title="Andriy Parubiy">Andriy Parubiy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsen_Avakov" title="Arsen Avakov">Arsen Avakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko" title="Vitali Klitschko">Vitali Klitschko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleh_Tyahnybok" title="Oleh Tyahnybok">Oleh Tyahnybok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuriy_Lutsenko" title="Yuriy Lutsenko">Yuriy Lutsenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentyn_Nalyvaichenko" title="Valentyn Nalyvaichenko">Valentyn Nalyvaichenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valeriy_Heletey" title="Valeriy Heletey">Valeriy Heletey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stepan_Poltorak" title="Stepan Poltorak">Stepan Poltorak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Koval" title="Mykhailo Koval">Mykhailo Koval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mykhailo_Kutsyn" title="Mykhailo Kutsyn">Mykhailo Kutsyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleh_Makhnitskyi" title="Oleh Makhnitskyi">Oleh Makhnitskyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Muzhenko" title="Viktor Muzhenko">Viktor Muzhenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Yarema" title="Vitaly Yarema">Vitaly Yarema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleh_Liashko" title="Oleh Liashko">Oleh Liashko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmytro_Yarosh" title="Dmytro Yarosh">Dmytro Yarosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetov" title="Rinat Akhmetov">Rinat Akhmetov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi" title="Ihor Kolomoyskyi">Ihor Kolomoyskyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serhiy_Taruta" title="Serhiy Taruta">Serhiy Taruta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ihor_Baluta" title="Ihor Baluta">Ihor 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