Khartsyzk

• Name — Khartsyzk • Native Name — Харцизьк • Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Ukraine • Subdivision Type1 — Oblast • Subdivision Name1 — Donetsk Oblast • Subdivision Type2 — Raion • Subdivision Name2 — Donetsk Raion • Subdivision Type3 — Hromada • Subdivision Name3 — Khartsyzk urban hromada • Elevation M — 216 • Population Total — 56182 • Population As Of — 2022 • Area Total Km2 — 19.3 • Established Date — 1869 • Established Title — Founded • Established Date2 — 1938 • Established Title2 — City status • Leader Title — Occupation head • Leader Name — Viktoria Zhukova

• Illustration — Railway station before 1917 It was founded in 1869 as a settlement at the station put into operation on the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railway. The Khartsyzsk settlement, which belonged to Major General Ivan Ilovaysky, was founded on the site of the modern city in 1786. Its name comes from the word "khartsyzy" ("robbers, plunderers"), which was the name used by Turks and Tatars in the sixteenth century for fugitive peasants and Zaporizhzhia Cossacks who settled near the southern borders of the Moscow state. The places of their settlements were called "Khartsyzsk". In 1883, a railway line was laid to the Makiivka mine, and in 1884to the Krynychna and Yasysivka stations (modern Makiivka-Pasazhyrska), and in 1898to the Makiivka metallurgical plant "Union". During the Ukrainian War of Independence, from 1917 to 1920, it passed between various factions. Afterwards, it was administratively part of the Donets Governorate of Ukraine. Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists took control of several towns in Donetsk Oblast. Unknown armed men took control of the Khartsyzk city hall on 13 April 2014, and declared it part of the Donetsk People's Republic. By the beginning of Russia's large-scale invasion, Khartsyzsk was under Russian occupation. Preparing for the resumption of the active phase of hostilities, in mid-February, Russian troops staged provocations under the pretext of announcing a mobilization in the city and the occupied part of Donbas in general to join the ranks of armed groups operating in the region. Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa Regional Military Administration, reported the destruction of a Russian military depot in the city of Khartsyzsk on 9 July 2022.

Ethnicities in the city as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census:

• Serhiy Larin (born 1962), Ukrainian politician