Zymohiria


Zymohiria is a small city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. Residence of Zymohiria urban hromada. Population:,.
Since 2014, Zymohiria has been under Russian occupation as part of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.
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. Later it became known that the warehouse was hit by the Ukrainian military with high-precision rockets from HIMARS systems.

Geography

The town is located on both sides of the river Luhan, 15 kilometers from the former district center of Slovianoserbsk. 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 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 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.

Demographics

Ethnic and linguistic composition of Zymohiria:

Notable people