Shakhtarsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

🇺🇦 Shakhtarsk or Shakhtyorsk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Regionally, the city is an administrative urban enclave also consisting of cities Torez and Snizhne and surrounded by Shakhtarsk Raion. It serves as the administrative centre of Shakhtarsk Raion which it does not belong to.

History Urban-type settlement since 1938. A local newspaper is published here since May 1946. In August 1953 the urban-type settlement Katyk became a city Shakhtyorsk. In 1964, a trade college was opened here. In 1985, the population of the city was 72 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining. In 1989, the population of the city was 73 854 people, the basis of the economy were coal mining, manufacture of clothes and knitwear. Since Soviet times until 1997, there were four vocational schools (№ 70, № 71, № 97 and № 98) and one college (a college of commerce and trade); in May 1997, the vocational school № 71 was closed. In 2000, a textile factory went bankrupt. After the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, the mechanical-repair plant became bankrupt and was closed.

Location Shakhtarsk Raion was located in the eastern part of Donetsk Oblast and to its south-east it had an international border with Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation. To its east it borders Luhansk Oblast. To the south is Amvrosiivka Raion, and to its north, Bakhmut Raion. To the west of Shakhtars Raion stretched a chain of several cities with separate regional-level self-government such as Makiivka, Khartsyzk, Yenakieve, Zhdanivka. The raion also completely surrounded the cities of Shakhtarsk, Torez, and Snizhne.