Horlivka

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A mining town founded by the engineer Petro Horlov in 1867.

Horlivka grew around the Korsun Mine No. 1 and is named after the mining engineer Petro Horlov. The town's art museum held a collection of Ukrainian painting, and its art school gave the country notable artists. Occupied since 2014, the town spent years just a few hundred metres from the front line.

Under occupation since 14 April 2014.

Chronicle

• 14 April 2014 — Armed men seized the city police headquarters.
• 17 April 2014 — Volodymyr Rybak, a city council deputy who had taken down a "DPR" flag, was abducted; his body was found in a river in the Sloviansk district on 19 April.
• July 2014 — Fighting on the approaches; the front line stopped alongside the city.
• 2014–2022 — Years spent a few kilometres from the contact line — shelling of residential districts became routine.