| Vedmezhe | |
| Native Name: | Ведмеже |
| Native Name Lang: | uk |
| Settlement Type: | Rural settlement |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1907 |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Total: | 2727 |
| Population As Of: | 2022 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Luhansk Oblast#Ukraine |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Volodarsk within Luhansk Oblast#Location of Volodarsk within Ukraine |
| Coordinates: | 48.1242°N 39.5856°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 92823 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | +380 6434 |
| Elevation M: | 274 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Ukraine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
| Subdivision Name2: | Dovzhansk Raion |
| Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
| Subdivision Name3: | Dovzhansk urban hromada |
Vedmezhe (Ukrainian: Ведмеже) or Volodarsk (Ukrainian: Володарськ) is a rural settlement in Dovzhansk urban hromada, Dovzhansk Raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. Population:
The town has its origins in 1905, when an unnamed worker's settlement grew up around a mine named after the Marxist revolutionary V. Volodarsky. In 1923, it officially received the name Volodarsk. In 1938, it received urban-type settlement status.
During the war in Donbas, the town has been occupied by pro-Russian militants. In 2016, the Ukrainian government renamed Volodarsk to Vedmezhe as part of decommunization in Ukraine.[2] In June 2020, the town was assigned to Dovzhansk urban hromada.[3]
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 3,208 people.[4] Their native languages were:[5]