Zymohiria

{{short description|City in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine}}

{{Redirect|Zimogorye|other places with the same name|Zimogorye (rural locality)}}

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Zymohiria ({{langx|uk|Зимогір'я}}, {{langx|ru|Зимогорье}}) is a small city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Residence of Zymohiria urban hromada. Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|9,557}}, {{Ua-pop-est2013|9,949}}.

Since 2014, Zymohiria has been under the occupation of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.{{cite web|url=http://gkslg.info/files/chisl_0915.pdf|title=Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике|publisher=Luhansk People's Republic|language=ru|access-date=21 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204211939/http://gkslg.info/files/chisl_0915.pdf|archive-date=4 February 2016}}

On 27 June 2022, during a full-scale war, an ammunition depot of the occupation forces located in the village caught fire and then exploded. The day before, a similar fire at an ammunition depot occurred in the temporarily occupied Svatove and Khrustalne.{{Cite web |title=У Зимогір'ї на Луганщині вибухнув склад боєприпасів російських окупантів |url=https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/u-zymogir-yi-na-luganshhyni-vybuhnuv-sklad-boyeprypasiv-rosijskyh-okupantiv/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Мілітарний |language=uk}} Later it became known that the warehouse was hit by the Ukrainian military with high-precision rockets from HIMARS systems.{{Cite web |title=HIMARS: українські екіпажі розповіли про результати першого тижня застосування |url=https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/himars-ukrayinski-ekipazhi-rozpovily-pro-rezultaty-pershogo-tyzhnya-zastosuvannya/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Мілітарний |language=uk}}

Geography

The town is located on both sides of the river Luhan (a tributary of the Siverskyi Donets), 15 kilometers from the district center (Slovianoserbska). Zymohiria railway station on the Lyman-Rodakove line. It stretches for 17 kilometers from east to west and 8 kilometers from south to north. The area is 49.5 square kilometers. Neighboring settlements: Khoroshe and Petrovenky villages (upstream of Luhany) in the northwest, Novohryhorivka and Smile in the north, Stepove, Dovhe and the village of Slovianoserbsk in the northeast, Novodachne and Sukhodil villages, Krasnyi Luch and Zamostia (downstream of Luhany) in the east, the villages of Rodakove, Bile, Yurivka in the southeast, Lotykove and Mykhailivka in the south, the village of Petrivka, the villages of Kryvorizhzhia, Lozivskyi, Karpaty in the southwest, and Yasnodolsk in the west.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Demographics

Ethnic and linguistic composition of Zymohiria:{{Cite web|url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities|title=Національний склад міст}}{{Cite web|url=https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/|title=Рідні мови в об'єднаних територіальних громадах України|website=socialdata.org.ua}}

{{bar box|title=Ethnic groups in Zymohiria|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|Ukrainians|dodgerblue|74.99}}

{{bar percent|Russians|purple|22.50}}

{{bar percent|Belarusians|red|0.94}}

{{bar percent|Tatars|olive|0.35}}}}

{{bar box|title=Native languages in Zymohiria|titlebar=#ddd|left1=Languages|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|Ukrainian|dodgerblue|59.6}}

{{bar percent|Russian|purple|39.4}}

{{bar percent|Belarusian|red|0.3}}

{{bar percent|others|gray|0.5}}}}

Notable people

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