Staromlynivka

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Staromlynivka ({{langx|uk|Старомлинівка}}; {{langx|ru|link=no|Старомлыновка|Staromlynovka}}) is a village in Volnovakha Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, located {{convert|14|km|mi}} south of the town of Velyka Novosilka.{{Cite web |author=Karolina Hird |author2=George Barros |author3=Grace Mappes |author4=Nicole Wolkov |author5=Mason Clark |author6=Fredrick W. Kagan |date=8 June 2023 |title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 8, 2023 |url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-8-2023 |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=Institute for the Study of War |language=en}} Before 1946, it was known as Staryi Kermenchyk ({{langx|uk|Старий Керменчик}}; {{langx|ru|Старый Керменчик|Stary Kermenchik}}).{{cite wikisource|title=Указ Президії Верховної Ради УРСР від 7.6.1946 «Про збереження історичних найменувань та уточнення … назв … Сталінської області»|wslanguage=uk|date=7 June 1946}} It is located in the floodplain of the Mokri Yaly river.

It is the administrative center of Staromlynivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas (communities) of Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Старомлинівська громада - Донецька область |url=https://gromada.info/gromada/staromlynivska/ |access-date=2023-08-14 |website=gromada.info}}

History

The village was founded as Staryi Kermenchyk in 1779 by Greeks from Crimea.{{cite book|section-url=https://ukrssr.com.ua/donetska/velikonovos/staromlinivka-velikonovosilkivskiy-rayon-donetska-oblast|lang=uk |section=Старомлинівка, Великоновосілківський Район, Донецька Область|first1=R. D. |last1=Lyakh|first2=S. K. |last2=Temyr|title=The History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR}} The "Kermenchyk" part of the name comes from the word {{lang|uum|Т'ерменчик}} ({{transliteration|uum|Ťermenčik}}) from the Urum language,{{cite thesis|title=Греки Приазов'я: Етнонаціональні Процеси В Аспекті Трансформації Традиційної Культури (Кінець Хvііі – Початок Ххі Століття)|url=http://ponomaryova.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/dysertacziya.-greky-pryazovya.pdf|institution=Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv|lang=uk|page=113|quote=Так, на правобережжі р. Кальміуса греки-переселенці з Криму заснували [...] Керменчик – Т'ерменчик (урум.)}} a Turkic language spoken by some Pontic Greeks.{{Cite journal|last=Stavros|first=Skopeteas|date=2016|title=The Caucasian Urums and the Urum language/Kafkasya Urumları ve Urum Dili|url=https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2900617|journal=Handbook of Endangered Turkic Languages}} The word means "small mill", and the modern name "Staromlynivka" is a calque of this Urum-derived name into Ukrainian.

In 1886, Staryi Kermenchyk was recorded as being the center of {{ill|Staro-Kermenchitska volost|uk|Старо-Керменчицька волость}} inside Mariupol uyezd. The volost contained one other village, Krasna Poliana.{{cite web|publisher=Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine|first=Olena Nikolaevna|last=Balukhtina|title=ГОСПОДАРЧО-МАЙНОВИЙ РЕСУРС ПРАВОСЛАВНОЇ ЦЕРКВИ В ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ XIX СТОЛІТТЯ – 1917 р. (НА МАТЕРІАЛАХ ПІВДНЯ УКРАЇНИ)|page=296|url=https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Balukhtina_Olena/Hospodarcho-mainovyi_resurs_pravoslavnoi_tserkvy_v_druhii_polovyni_XIX_stolittia__1917_r_na_material.pdf?PHPSESSID=u24jvon37hums6k8sjherri7v6|access-date=15 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815215929/https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Balukhtina_Olena/Hospodarcho-mainovyi_resurs_pravoslavnoi_tserkvy_v_druhii_polovyni_XIX_stolittia__1917_r_na_material.pdf?PHPSESSID=u24jvon37hums6k8sjherri7v6|archive-date=15 August 2023}} In the 20th century, Staryi Kermenchyk was a scene of fighting during the Russian Civil War. It was the center of {{ill|Staromlynivka Raion|ru|Старомлиновский район}} (known as Staro-Kermenchik Raion until 1946) from 1923 until 1959.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

By 1926, Staryi Kermenchyk still had one of the largest Greek communities in Ukraine, as part of the larger community in the area between Mariupol and Donetsk.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CG%5CR%5CGreeks.htm|encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine|title=Greeks|access-date=14 August 2023}} It was renamed to Staromlynivka in 1946. In May 1964, a local history museum was opened in Staromlynivka.

=2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine=

The village was captured by Russian forces in March 13, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{cite web|url=https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-13 |title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 13 |date=2022-03-13 |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=criticalthreats.org |author= Mason Clark |author2=George Barros |author3=Kateryna Stepanenko |quote=The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed that Russian forces captured Staromlynivka, Yevhenivka, Pavlivka, and Yegorivka as of noon local time on March 13. }} During the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian-installed occupation official Vladimir Rogov reported that Ukraine was aiming to take back control of the town.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-13 |title=Ukraine forces seek to pierce Russian lines in south, Russia-installed official |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-forces-seek-pierce-russian-lines-south-russian-installed-official-2023-08-13/ |access-date=2023-08-15}}

Demographics

The settlement had 3,373 inhabitants in 2001. The native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of the same year was:{{Cite web |url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp |title=Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення {{!}} Банк даних |trans-title=All-Ukrainian population census {{!}} Database |website=ukrcensus.gov.ua |access-date=27 October 2022 |language=uk }}