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Chystiakove
Чистякове | |
|---|---|
 Children's Creativity Palace | |
 Flag  Seal | |
  Chystiakove .svg) Chystiakove | |
| Coordinates: 48°1′19″N 38°37′35″E / 48.02194°N 38.62639°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
| Raion | Horlivka Raion |
| Hromada | Chystiakove urban hromada |
| Founded | 1778 |
| Area | |
• Total | 105.8 km2 (40.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 53,462 |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | torez |
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Chystiakove (Ukrainian: Чистякове IPA: [t͡ʃɪsʲtʲɐˈkɔwe] , Russian: Чистяково), formerly Torez (Ukrainian: Торез, Russian: Торез) until 2016, is a city in Donetsk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. The city is a center of the regional coal industry and much of its economy relies on mining, despite a recent drop in the number of employed miners. The city has a population of 53,462 (2022 estimate).[1]
Founded in 1778, the city was named Chystiakove in 1868. It was renamed Torez in 1964 in honor of Maurice Thorez, a leader of the French Communist Party. In 2016, the Ukrainian parliament restored the name Chystiakove due to decommunization laws.[2]
Pro-Russian separatists took control of Chystiakove in June 2014.[3]
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ "Рада перейменувала населені пункти на окупованому Донбасі: Торез - на Чистякове, Краснодон - на Сорокине". Unian.ua. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ Letters From Donbas, Radio Free Europe (11 December 2014)