| Zymohiria | |||||
| Native Name: | Зимогір'я | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | uk | ||||
| Settlement Type: | City | ||||
| Unit Pref: | Metric | ||||
| Area Total Km2: | 8.56 | ||||
| Population Total: | 9557 | ||||
| Population As Of: | 2022 | ||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||
| Timezone: | EET | ||||
| Utc Offset: | +2 | ||||
| Timezone Dst: | EEST | ||||
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 | ||||
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine#Ukraine Luhansk Oblast | ||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Zymohiria within Ukraine | ||||
| Coordinates: | 48.5819°N 38.9319°W | ||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||
| Postal Code: | 93742 | ||||
| Area Code Type: | Area code | ||||
| Area Code: | +380 6473 | ||||
| Blank Name: | Climate | ||||
| Blank Info: | Dfb | ||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Luhansk Oblast | ||||
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Alchevsk Raion | ||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Zymohiria urban hromada | ||||
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Zymohiria (Ukrainian: Зимогір'я, Russian: Зимогорье) is a city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Residence of Zymohiria urban hromada. Population:, .
Since 2014, Zymohiria has been under the occupation of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.[1]
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.[2] Later it became known that the warehouse was hit by the Ukrainian military with high-precision rockets from HIMARS systems.[3]
The town is located on both sides of the river Luhan (a tributary of the Siverskyi Donets), 15 kilometers from the district center (Slovianoserbska). 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 (upstream of Luhany) 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 (downstream of Luhany) 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.
Ethnic and linguistic composition of Zymohiria:[4] [5]