Sverdlove
The town is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of Donetsk.
History
The town, when it was still known as Sverdlove, was captured by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, a Russia-backed breakaway state in 2014 during the war in Donbas. At 11:20AM, November 9, 2014, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine observed a convoy of seventeen green unmarked trucks moving west in the area of Sverdlove. Some of the trucks were towing multiple-launch rocket systems, and others carried ammunition crates.
In 2016, the Ukrainian government officially renamed Sverdlove to Kholodne in accordance with decommunization laws. In 2020, the Ukrainian government designated all settlements in Makiivka municipality to Makiivka urban hromada.
On January 25, 2022, there were ceasefire violations near Kholodne.
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
- Ukrainian 18.9%
- Russian 80.23%
- Belarusian 0.19%
- Polish 0.6%
References
- ^ "Sverdlove (Donetsk Oblast)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ "Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 9 November 2014".
- ^ "Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей".
- ^ "Про визначення адміністративних центрів та затвердження територій територіальних громад Донецької області". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- ^ "Daily Report 18/2022" (PDF). p. 9.
- ^ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua Archived 31 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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