Official Name: | Zorynsk | ||||||||||
Settlement Type: | City | ||||||||||
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine#Ukraine Luhansk Oblast | ||||||||||
Coordinates: | 48.4167°N 38.6167°W | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Luhansk Oblast | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Alchevsk Raion | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||||||||
Subdivision Name3: | Alchevsk urban hromada | ||||||||||
Established Title1: | City status on | ||||||||||
Established Date1: | 1963 | ||||||||||
Area Total Km2: | 8.68 | ||||||||||
Population Total: | 7096 | ||||||||||
Population As Of: | 2022 | ||||||||||
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Zorynsk (uk|Зоринськ), is a city in Alchevsk urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine. Population: .
Zorynsk has been a city since 1963. From 2014 on, and the War in Donbas (2014–2022), Zorynsk has been controlled by the Luhansk People's Republic.[1] Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the territory as part of their LNR / LPR.
On 12 June 2020, in accordance with the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 717-r "On the determination of administrative centers and approval of territories of territorial communities of the Luhansk Oblast", it became part of the Alchevsk urban hromada.[2]
On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of Perevalsk Raion, it became part of Alchevsk Raion.[3]