Zorynsk

Zorynsk (Ukrainian: Зоринськ), is a city in Alchevsk urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine. Population: 7,096 (2022 estimate)^[1]. 7,331 (2013 est.)^[2]

Zorynsk
City
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Coordinates: 48.4167°N 38.6167°E / 48.4167; 38.6167
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Luhansk Oblast
Raion	Alchevsk Raion
Hromada	Alchevsk urban hromada
City status on	1963
Area
• Total	8.68 km2 (3.35 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	7,096

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

On 19 July 2020, as a result of the administrative-territorial reform and liquidation of Perevalsk Raion, it became part of Alchevsk Raion.^[5]

Demographics

As of the 2001 census, Zorynsk had a population of 8,672 inhabitants. Like in the rest of the Donbas region, ethnic Ukrainians constitute the clear majority of the population, yet Russian is the lingua franca. The exact ethnic and linguistic composition was as follows:^[6][7]

Ethnic groups in Zorynsk percent Ukrainians   66.96% Russians   30.42% Belarusians   1.22% Tatars   0.35% Azerbaijanis   0.18% Armenians   0.12%

Primary languages in Zorynsk percent Russian   82.7% Ukrainian   17.0% Belarusian   0.1% Armenian   0.1% others   0.1%