Zalizne


Zalizne, formerly Artemove, is a city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is part of the Toretsk urban hromada. The distance to Toretsk by local road is approximately 6 km.
On 19 May 2016, Artemove was renamed to Zalizne, conforming to the law prohibiting names of communist origin.
Population:, 6,725.

History

Zalizne is known since 1894 as Nelepovsky Khutor. In July 1905, miners of the Nelepovsky Mine organized a strike, involving over 100 miners. In April 1916, more than 5,000 workers went on strike at the Neliptyvskyi Mine. Soviet authority was established in 1917, and M.I. Dubovyi was elected as the head of the council of workers' deputies.

Russo-Ukrainian War

In 2024, as part of a renewed effort to capture Donetsk Oblast, the Russian Armed Forces advanced near Zalizne as well as other satellite settlements of the Toretsk urban area, as geolocated footage by DeepState confirmed. The ISW reported that central Zalizne had been reached by Russian forces on 13 July.
Russia formally claimed to have taken the city on 19 August.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: