| Settlement Type: | City | ||||||||||||
| Official Name: | Yasynuvata | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Donetsk Oblast | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Donetsk Raion | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Yasynuvata urban hromada | ||||||||||||
| Population Total: | 34,144 | ||||||||||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Area Total Km2: | 19 | ||||||||||||
| Established Date: | 1872 | ||||||||||||
| Established Title: | Founded | ||||||||||||
| Established Title1: | City status | ||||||||||||
| Established Date1: | 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation M: | 257 | ||||||||||||
| Blank Name: | Climate | ||||||||||||
| Blank Info: | Warm summer subtype | ||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine | ||||||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Yasynuvata | ||||||||||||
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 48.1278°N 37.8625°W | ||||||||||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||||||||||
| Postal Code: | 86000—86015 | ||||||||||||
| Area Code: | +380-6236 | ||||||||||||
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Yasynuvata (uk|Ясинувата, pronounced as /uk/; ru|Ясиноватая|Yasinovataya, pronounced as /ru/) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It was incorporated as a city of oblast significance until the 2020 administrative reform. It also served as the administrative center of Yasynuvata Raion until it was dissolved in 2020. It is located from Donetsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Yasynuvata is a large railway crossroad. Its population is approximately
See main article: articles and Battle of Yasynuvata. Starting mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns and cities across in Donetsk and Luhansk Districts;[1] [2] including Yasynuvata.[3] On 17 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly took the city from the pro-Russian separatists.[3] But fighting for control of the city continued.[4] On 19 August Ukrainian troops claimed they were clearing Yasynuvata of remaining separatist forces after its victory ("conducting a mopping-up operation").[5] Ukrainian military was forced to retreat from the town in mid-September 2014, and since then the government of Ukraine has recognised it to be under Russian occupation.[6]
Due to the war situation railway operation has ceased in 2014.[7]
In 2016 the OSCE declared the area between Yasynuvata and neighboring Ukrainian army controlled Avdiivka to be one of the hotspots of the War in Donbass.[8] [9] [10]
On 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation unilaterally annexed Yasynuvata with other areas of Donetsk Oblast that are under Russian military occupation.[11]
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census: