Vuhlehirsk


Vuhlehirsk is a city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city's population was 10,309 in 2001. More recently, the population has been estimated to be.
Vuhlehirsk is a district-level city in the Donetsk region, subordinated to the Yenakiieve city council. Population is 8,226. The official date of foundation is 1879 – the year of opening the railway station Khatsepetivka. Vuhlehirsk is located in the south-eastern part of Ukraine at the distance of 61 km from the regional centre of Donetsk and 750 km from the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv.
In February 2015, during the War in Donbass, the city was captured by separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic during the Battle of Debaltseve.
On 11 December 2014 the city municipality of Vuhlehirsk including city of Vuhlehirsk and five other settlements along with two town municipalities were transferred from the Yenakiieve Municipality to the Bakhmut Raion.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: