Irmino
Ukrainian: Ірміно | |
|---|---|
 Irmino mine slag heap | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Irmino  Irmino | |
| Coordinates: 48°35′48″N 38°34′58″E / 48.59667°N 38.58278°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Luhansk Oblast |
| Founded | 1808 |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 9,270 |
| Area code | (+380) |
| Vehicle registration | BB / 13 |
| Climate | Dfb |
Іrmino (Ukrainian: Ірміно) is a city in Kadiivka Municipality, Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Irmino is located 55 km west of Luhansk. It is part of the agglomeration Alchevsk-Kadiivka, in Donbas. It is located on the banks of the river Luhan. The population is 9,270 (2022 estimate)[1], 10,044 (2013 est.)[2].
Since 2014, and the War in Donbas (2014–2022), Irmino has been under the control of the Luhansk People's Republic.[3] Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the city as part of their LPR / LNR.
History
Irmino was the first village of Petrovka/Petrivka (in Ukrainian: Петрівка) founded in 1808 on the right bank of the Luhan by peasants from the Poltava region and renamed Irminka in 1898, or Irmino (Ірміно) around 1910, after the coal mine named after Irma, daughter of the mine owner.
In 1936, the village achieved city status and took on the name Teplohirsk in 1977. On July 8, 2010 the town was renamed Irmino.
It was in Irmino, at the “Tsentralna-Irmino” mine, where Alexei Stakhanov had been working since 1927, that the legendary miner reportedly managed to extract 102 t (100 long tons; 112 short tons) of coal, i.e. 14 times the norm, on the night of August 30 to August 31, 1935. At the time, the village of Irmino depended on Kadiivka, and Stakhanov's registration would have been made at the Tsentralna-Irmino mine in Kadiivka.
Name
- 1808 — 1900 — Petrovka (Petrovka),
- 1900— 1962 — Brother (Irmino),
- 1977 — 2010 — Teplohirsk (Теплогірсь)
Demographics
- 1923 - 2,794
- 1926 - 5,276
- 1939 - 15,327
- 1959 - 21,512
- 1979 - 19,090
- 1989 - 18,549
- 2001 - 13,053
- 2012 - 10,200
- 2013 - 10,044
- 2014 - 9,886
- 2015 - 9,764
- 2016 - 9,687
- 2021 - 9,343
Transport
Irmino is 116 km from Luhansk by rail and 75 km by road.
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
