Yenakiieve

Yenakiieve Єнакієве
City
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Coordinates: 48°13′00″N 38°12′00″E / 48.21667°N 38.20000°E / 48.21667; 38.20000
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Horlivka Raion
Hromada	Yenakiieve urban hromada
Founded	1898
City rights	1925
Area
• City	39.2 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• City	76,673
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi)
• Metro	104,857
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	86400—86470
Area code	+380 6252
Climate	Dfb
Website	Yenakiieve City Council Archived 27 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine

Yenakiieve (Ukrainian: Єна́кієве, pronounced [jeˈnɑ.k⁽ʲ⁾i.je.we] ^ⓘ; Russian: Енакиево, romanized: Yenakiyevo) is a city and the nominal administrative center of Yenakiieve urban hromada in the Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city stands on the Krynka River about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk. Its population is approximately 76,673 (2022 estimate).^[1]

Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal mining, metallurgy, chemical production and manufacturing. The city's outdated industry has caused accidents like that of a gas explosion which occurred in June 2008 at one of Yenakiieve's coal mines. Yenakiieve was founded in 1898 when numerous workers' settlements around the Peter's Iron and Steel Works were united into a single settlement named after Fyodor Yenakiyev [ru]. Its first coal mines dated from 1883. The settlement was incorporated as a city in 1925. By 1958, the city and factories had expanded significantly and overtook the outlying villages of Simyukuo, Yevrah, and Tsiminyenny, all of which were resettled in their entirety when local livestock could not survive the expanding steel mills' runoff and pollution. One of the oldest metallurgical factories of Ukraine — the Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works operates in Yenakiieve.

The city is known as the birthplace of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych (in office 2010–2014) and his son, who was the People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2014.