Kadiivka

Kadiivka is a coal-mining city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, on the Komyshuvakha River, a right tributary of the Luhan. It grew from the mid-19th century settlement of Shubynka as coal mining developed, and took the name Kadiivka in 1898. It was briefly called Serho after the Bolshevik Sergo Ordzhonikidze between 1937 and 1940, and received city status in 1932. In 1978 it was renamed Stakhanov after the Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov, who began his career there, and Ukraine restored the name Kadiivka by a vote of its parliament in 2016. Because of the occupation of eastern Ukraine since 2014, the Russian administration keeps the name Stakhanov. The population was about 73,000 in 2022, and the city is the seat of the Kadiivka urban hromada.