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Sloviansk

For the Ukrainian naval vessel, seeUkrainian patrol vessel Sloviansk.For the town in Russia, seeSlavyansk-on-Kuban.

Sloviansk[a]is a city inDonetsk Oblast,northern part of theDonbasregion of easternUkraine.The city was known asToruntil 1784.[6]While it did not actually belong to the raion itself, Sloviansk served as the administrative center of theSloviansk Raion(district) until its abolition on 18 July 2020.

Sloviansk
Слов'янськ
City
Flag of Sloviansk
Flag
Coat of arms of Sloviansk
Coat of arms
Sloviansk is located in Donetsk Oblast
Sloviansk
Sloviansk
Sloviansk is located in Ukraine
Sloviansk
Sloviansk
Coordinates:48°51′12″N37°37′30″E/ 48.85333°N 37.62500°E/48.85333; 37.62500
CountryUkraine
OblastDonetsk Oblast
RaionKramatorsk Raion
HromadaSloviansk urban hromada
Founded1645
City status1784
Government
• MayorVadym Liakh[uk;ru][1](Opposition Bloc[1])
Area
• Total
58.9 km2(22.7 sq mi)
Elevation
74 m (243 ft)
Population
(1 January 2022)[2]
• Total
105,141
• Density1,800/km2(4,600/sq mi)
In June 2022, the population was estimated less than 24,000.[3]
Postal code
84100—84129
Area code+380-6262
ClimateWarm summer subtype
KATOTTHUA14120210010032554
Websitehttp:// slavrada.gov.ua/
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Sloviansk was one of the focal points in the early stages of thewar in Donbas,in 2014, as it was one of the first cities to be seized and controlled by Russian-backed rebels (separatists), in mid-April 2014.[7][8]Ukrainian forces then retook control of the city in July 2014, and since then, Sloviansk has been under Ukrainian control.

The 2001 population of Sloviansk was 141,066. Largely due to the ongoing war in Donbas, by early 2022 this was down to 105,141.[9]Following the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,the city's population fell markedly, to around 24,000 by July 2022, due to shelling, and ongoing war, according to Ukrainian authorities.[10]In April 2023, TheFinancial Timesestimated the population to have recovered to 40-50,000.[11]

History

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Founding and early history

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The history of Sloviansk dates back to 1645 when Russian TsarAlexei Romanovfounded aborder fortressnamed Tor[12]against theCrimean attacks and slave raidson the southern suburbs of modern Ukraine and Russia.[13]In 1664, the first salt plant for the extraction of salt was built, and workers began to settle in the area.[14]In 1676, afortressnamed Tor was built at the confluence of theKazenyy Toretsand Sukhyy Torets River, where they form the Torets River, a tributary ofDonets River.[15]Shortly thereafter, the town of Tor grew up next to the fortress.[13]

Sloviansk in the late 19th century

As several salt lakes were located close by, the town soon became a major producer ofsalt.During the sixteenth century, salt production was the principal local industry. In 1784, the city was renamed Slovenske, and a decade later, Sloviansk (Slavyansk). [16]

In 1827, military doctor A. Yakovlev was the first to use mud treatment and bathing in Lake Ropne to treat sick soldiers. Four years later, a military hospital of 200 beds was opened near the lake, where mud therapy was used. In 1832, the first resort was established on the shores of Lake Ropne.[17]With the construction of a railway line in 1869, the town grew rapidly, from a population of 5,900 in 1847 to 15,700 by 1897.[16]

20th century

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Sloviansk in the early 20th century

In April 1918, troops loyal to theUkrainian People's Republicbriefly took control of Sloviansk.[18]Sloviansk was then, along with the rest of Ukraine, incorporated into theUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

InWorld War II,the city was occupied byNazi Germanson 28 October 1941. In December 1941, theSSEinsatzkommando 4bmurdered more than a thousand Jews who lived in Sloviansk.[19]TheRed Armytemporarily expelled the Nazi occupiers on 17 February 1943. Germans retook it on 1 March 1943. The Red Army finally liberated Sloviansk on 6 September 1943.

Salt extraction in Sloviansk in turn gave rise to salt refining and packaging, soda and other chemical manufacturing. By 1972 there were 18 related enterprises in the city, including plastics and the making of vinyl records.[16]Sloviansk reached its peak population of 143,000 in 1987. Sloviansk would remain as part of theUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republicuntil its dissolution in 1991, after which the city became part of an independent Ukraine.[16]

Siege of Sloviansk

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Main article:Siege of Sloviansk

The2014 Ukrainian revolutionfor the most part passed Sloviansk by, with no large-scale gatherings or events in the city, and polls showing people in the east of Ukraine to be largely opposed to the Maidan movement in Kyiv.[20]However, Sloviansk would quickly become the epicentre of events following the fallout of the revolution. On 12 April 2014, in the crisis and chaos which gripped the country following the revolution's installing of theFirst Yatsenyuk government,a reported 55 armed men, led by Russian military veteranIgor Girkin,known as 'Igor Strelkov' stormed Sloviansk, quickly capturing the executive committee building, the police department, and theSBUoffice of the city.[21][22][23]Ukrainian Interior MinisterArsen Avakovdescribed the gunmen as "terrorists" and vowed to use the Ukrainian special forces to retake the buildings.[24][25]On 13 April 2014, there were reports of fighting between the gunmen and Ukrainian troops, with casualties reported on both sides.[26][27]The BBC's David Stern described the pro-Russian forces as carrying Russian weapons and resembling the soldiers that took over Crimean installations at the start of the2014 Crimean crisis.[26][28]

Pro-Russia rebels in Sloviansk

Initially, the pro-Russia rebels enjoyed strong support, with theNew York Timesreporting: "Thousands of residents thronged a large square in front of City Hall to welcome the pro-Russian putsch, chanting “Russia, Russia” and posing for photographs with gunmen they hailed as their saviors from the fascists who had seized power in Kiev with the February ouster of President Victor F. Yanukovych, a Russian-speaker from Donetsk."[29]

Victory Day 2014 in Sloviansk

Elected mayor of SlovianskNelya Shtepagave a series of contradictory statements on her support for the pro-Russia side, and was then taken captive by the pro-Russia side. Shtepa would be one of several high-profile detainments during rebel control of Sloviansk. [30]On 14 April the pro-Russia side installed their own 'people's mayor'Vyacheslav Ponomarev,to deal with civilian matters, and press, while Strelkov / Girkin took charge of military matters.[31]Throughout April, and May, Ponomarev would hold near daily press conferences in the city's admininstrative building.[32]On 9 May,Victory Day,there was a parade, and large gathering of people in the central Square of Sloviansk. Nelya Shtepa appeared, the first time she had been seen in public since mid-April, and gave a pro-Russian speech on stage, urging people to vote in the referendum scheduled for 11 May. Recently freed rebel leaderPavel Gubarevalso appeared on stage.[33]Referendums went ahead across Donbas on 11 May, including Sloviansk, with the pro-Russia side reporting a turnout of near 75%, with over 90% voting for self rule as part of the Donetsk/Luhansk People's Republics. However, the referendums were not monitored, or endorsed, by any international observers, or organisations, and their results almost universally unrecognised in the west. Russia issued a statement saying they 'respected' the results of the referendums, but stopped short of recognising them.[34][35]

Fighting intensified throughout May, as Ukrainian forces escalated their 'ATO' (Anti-Terror Operation) to retake the city, with a Ukrainian military helicopter shot down at the start of the month, and multiple casualties reported in fighting on both sides.[36]May would also see escalating civilian casualties in Sloviansk, as Ukrainian forces began their assault on the city. On 5 May, 30-year-old Irina Boevets was killed by a stray Ukrainian bullet, as she stepped out on her balcony.The Guardianat the time reported these civilian deaths as "fuelling pro-Russian sentiment".[37]Fighting between sides would wage in May, with increasing intensity. A follow-up referendum to the referendum on 11 May had been planned for 18 May, giving voters the option of joining Russia, however this was abandoned due to the escalation of fighting. On 29 May 2014, a Ukrainian helicopter carrying fourteen Ukrainian special service soldiers, including GeneralSerhiy Kulchytskiy– the head of combat and special training for Ukraine's National Guard, crashed after being shot down by militants near Sloviansk. Ukraine's outgoing PresidentOlexander Turchynovdescribed the downing as a "terrorist attack," and blamed pro-Russian militants.[38]

As June went on, it became clear that the pro-Russia side were losing the battle for Sloviansk, beset by a number of problems, including infighting, with enmity between 'people's mayor' Ponomarev, and Strelkov/Girkin, resulting in Strelkov/Girkin having Ponomarev arrested, and dismissed from his duties, on 12 June.[31]Ukrainian forces further stepped up their shelling of Sloviansk in June.[39]Sloviansk was ultimately held by Russian-backed rebels for nearly three months, from mid-April until 5 July 2014, during which time fighting between the rebels and the Ukrainian army escalated, along with shelling of civilian areas of the city, with both military and civilian casualties.[40]In late June, the Ukrainian army started advancing on Sloviansk, taking strategically significant locationed, including the Karachun Mountains. This, combined with Strelkov's videos decrying a lack of support, made the rebel retreat an inevitability.[41][42]A 10-day ceasefire, not entirely observed by either side, ended on 30 June, and in early July, faced with a full-on Ukrainian offensive, Strelkov co-ordinated the retreat of his forces from Sloviansk.[43]Initially they had planned to go to nearbyKramatorsk,however when it became clear that the Ukrainian army would also take Kramatorsk, which they duly did, most headed toDonetsk,which would then become their stronghold.[44]

Sloviansk was one of several territories taken by Ukrainian forces at this time, including the nearby cities of Kramatorsk, andKostiantynivka.[45]Although Sloviansk's capture was a military victory for Ukrainian forces, the successful co-ordinated retreat of the rebel forces, and fall back to a fortified Donetsk, led to accusations, and recriminations, from the Ukrainian side.[46]

General Serhiy Krivonos, Deputy Secretary of theNational Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,said in 2020 that the Ukrainian Army was aware of the movement of Girkin's columns out of Sloviansk but did not attack the columms:

Having some information from our sources from Sloviansk andKramatorsk,we understood that they [the separatists] would come out. This understanding was clearly formed between 2 and 3 July. And already on the 4th it was clear that they would leave that night from 4 to 5 July. We actively conducted reconnaissance and gave coordinates directly on the night movement of the column, and on the daytime location of the enemy in Kramatorsk, and then on the exit of Girkin's columns from Kramatorsk. These coordinates were given. There was no implementation of [an attack on] these coordinates.[47]

A series of incidents, and a difficult ongoing living situation had resulted in support for the pro-Russian rebels eroding in the near three months that Sloviansk was under their control. The New York Times reported that 'many of the same people' who had once supported the pro-Russia rebels 'rushed into the same square to greet Ukrainian military trucks as soldiers handed out free food. Virtually nobody now admits to having supported the separatists.' Konstantin Batozsky, an aide to the Kyiv-appointed governor of the Donetsk region, which included Sloviansk, stated of the people of Sloviansk: “They are happy to welcome whoever gives them food.”[29]

Aftermath of the siege and decommunization

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Following Ukraine's recapture of Sloviansk in July 2014, Ukrainian authorities began a 'hunt' for collaborators, setting up a hotline encouraging residents of the city to inform on those who had 'collaborated with pro-Russian rebels'. There were further discoveries of 'mass graves'. The New York Times reported at this time "There is no mood of joyous celebration at what Ukrainian officials trumpet as the city’s “liberation.” Anger and animosity bubbles just below the calm surface. In each workplace, everyone knows who did what during rebel rule, creating poisonous currents of suspicion. "[29]The population of Sloviansk had fallen to around 80,000 at this time.

In 2015, as part of Ukraine's process ofdecommunization,the fate of Sloviansk's statue ofLenin,in the city's central square, became a topic of heated debate at council meetings. Large factions from Ukrainian ultra-national groupsSvobodaand theRight Sectorattended these meetings, in support of the removal / destruction of the statue. There were also locals in favour of keeping the statue, with a petition of 4,500 signatures supporting the Lenin statue remaining. No consensus had been reached, when in the early hours of June 3, Right Sector militants tore the statue down.[48]Also in 2015, a plaque to the memory ofVolodymyr Rybak,a Ukrainian politician killed by pro-Russian rebels in 2014, was placed in the town center.[49]

Although war continued in parts of Donbas, there were no notable incidents in Sloviansk following its recapture by Ukrainian forces in July 2014, until 2022. In 2016, the city was visited byOrlando Bloomin his role as aUNICEFgoodwill ambassador.[50]The population of Sloviansk would recover in the years up to 2022, to pre-2014 level.[16]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Damage to a residential building in Sloviansk after theApril 2023 airstrikeby Russia

Sloviansk has been affected from the start of the2022 Invasion of Ukraine,without becoming a central theatre of war.[11]Sloviansk has been described as being a "crucial part Moscow’s objective of capturing all of the Donbas region".[51]

The city has several times fallen under shelling, with the loss of civilian life.[52][53][54]An April 2023 profile of Sloviansk by theFinancial Timesdescribed the city as being like a 'ghost town', with mayor Vadym Lyakh having given an order to evacuate. The population of Sloviansk at this time was estimated at 40-50,000, up from 2022's estimate of 24,000, but significantly down from the pre-Russian invasion population of over 100,000.[11]In September 2023, The Guardian reported from a Sloviansk still on a war footing.[55]

Demographics

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Historical population
YearPop.±%
189715,792—
192628,385+79.7%
193977,842+174.2%
195982,784+6.3%
1970124,183+50.0%
1979140,256+12.9%
1989135,300−3.5%
2001124,829−7.7%
2011118,602−5.0%
2022105,141−11.3%
Source:[56]

According to the2001 Ukrainian Census:[57]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians 104,423 73.1%
Russians 33,649 23.6%
Turks 829 0.6%
Belarusians 766 0.5%
Armenians 592 0.4%
Greeks 320 0.2%
Roma people 279 0.2%
Azerbaijanis 208 0.1%

Total 2001 population: 141,066

Geography

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Sloviansk is in the valley of theKazennyi ToretsRiver, a righttributaryof theDonets,in the Donbas region.

Karachun Mountains are the highest point of Sloviansk, situated to the south of the city.[58]

Climate

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The climate in Sloviansk is amild to warm summer subtype(Köppen:Dfb) of thehumid continental climate.

Climate data for Sloviansk
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Daily mean °C (°F) −5.9
(21.4) 		−5.4
(22.3) 		−0.2
(31.6) 		9.4
(48.9) 		16.2
(61.2) 		20.0
(68.0) 		21.7
(71.1) 		20.8
(69.4) 		15.5
(59.9) 		8.4
(47.1) 		1.8
(35.2) 		−2.5
(27.5) 		8.3
(46.9)
Averageprecipitationmm (inches) 45
(1.8) 		34
(1.3) 		27
(1.1) 		39
(1.5) 		42
(1.7) 		57
(2.2) 		51
(2.0) 		40
(1.6) 		39
(1.5) 		30
(1.2) 		42
(1.7) 		44
(1.7) 		490
(19.3)
Source: Climate-Data.org[59]

Economy and Industry

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The Sloviansk Balneological Institute
  • Before the war in 2014, Sloviansk was an important industrial and health resort center, providing spa treatments and mud baths using mud from the bottom of salt lakes located nearby, and attracting tourists from across Ukraine and beyond. After sustaining damage in 2014, some of the city's resort facilities were repaired, and operated until active war broke out in Sloviansk again in 2022. As of 2023, none of Sloviansk's spa resorts or tourist facilities are in operation.[60]
  • The Slovvazhmash heavy-machinery production plant, specialised in chemical equipment for coke production.[16]
  • The Betonmash machine-building factory, specialised in concrete mi xing plants, spare parts for mining equipment and metal works, parts for coke ovens.[61]
  • The Sloviansk mechanical plant, specialised in coke production as well as overhead cranes and other machinery.[62]

Transport

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Sloviansk railway station

Sloviansk is a nexus of a number of railways and roads. The city is served by three railway passenger stations: Slovianskyi Resort (in the northeast), ‘Mashchormet’ (at the junction), and 'Sloviansk' (the main station, west of the junction, on the southwest side of the city). Three railway lines leave the city in directions ofLozova,LymanandKramatorsk.The local population is served by atrolleybusnetwork consisting of two permanent routes and one summer route.Marshrutkasare widely used.

TheM03goes by the edge of Sloviansk. In early 2015, Ukraine lost control of the section of this fromDebaltsevoon, then in early 2023 Ukraine lost control of the section fromSoledarto Debaltsevo.H20leaves from the city towardMariupol,via Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Donetsk, andVolnovakha.Ukraine lost control of part of this highway, around Donetsk, in 2014. The first part of 2022 saw fierce fighting on or around the highway, and by summer of 2022, Ukraine had lost control of the H20 highway, from around Donetsk onto Mariupol.

Religious organizations

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The Church of the Resurrection of Christ

Christian churches:

  • Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church
  • Church of theResurrection of Christ
  • Church of theAndrew the Apostle
  • Church of Oleksandr Nevskyi
  • Church ofSeraphim Sarovsky
  • The "Kind New" Christian Center Church
  • Church of Jesus Christ of the Protestant Church of Ukraine

Notable people

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Ukrainian:Слов'янськ,IPA:[slou̯ˈjɑnʲsʲk]ⓘ;Russian:Славянск,romanized:Slavyansk,[4]IPA:[slɐˈvʲansk]or[ˈslavʲɪnsk][5]

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