Snizhne

The eastern edge of Snizhne is adjacent to administrative border of Luhansk Oblast. Its population is 45,767 (2022 estimate).

Snizhne Сніжне
City
Mining company office in Snizhne
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Coordinates: 48°01′41.8″N 38°45′56.2″E / 48.028278°N 38.765611°E / 48.028278; 38.765611
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Horlivka Raion
Hromada	Snizhne urban hromada
Founded	1784
Incorporated	1938
Area
• Total	87.2 km2 (33.7 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	49,564
Climate	Dfb
Website	snezhnoe-rada.gov.ua

The settlement was established in 1784 as a "winter place" Vasylivka (Vasilyevka) by Don Cossacks and was part of the Taganrog city municipality. In 1864 it was renamed as Snizhne/Snezhnoye which literally means Snowy.^{[citation needed]}

During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine the town was held by separatists. On July 15, 2014, rockets from an unidentified aircraft struck the town hitting an apartment building and a tax office, leaving at least eleven people dead and eight injured. Separatists blamed the Ukrainian Air Force for the attack, but Ukrainian sources denied it and stated that since the incident where an An-26 plane was shot down on July 14, 2014, they have carried out no flights there. Instead they blamed Russian jets.

After the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, a YouTube video and photo emerged with citizen journalists claiming the material was from Snizhne and showed a Buk missile launcher. In September 2016 a Joint Investigation Team confirmed that the plane had been downed by a 9M38 BUK missile launched from a rebel-controlled area near the town of Pervomaiske, 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Snizhne.

Fighting for the control of the town between the separatists and the Ukrainian army broke out on 28 July 2014. Snizhne remained under the effective control of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, reported ethnicity and language preferences were:^{[needs update]}

Ethnicity

• Ukrainians: 51.3%
• Russians: 41%
• Belarusians: 1.0%
• Tatars: 0.9%
• Armenians: 0.2%
• Greeks: 0.2%

Language

• Russian: 84.1%
• Ukrainian: 14.8%
• Armenian: 0.1%
• Belarusian: 0.1%

• Snizhneantratsyt
• Snizhne Engineering Factory (a branch of Motor Sich)
• Snizhnianskkhimmash, a factory of chemical engineering
• Sofyino-Brodska train station

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  Mine № 9
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  Yuri Gagarin monument
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  School №1
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  Military museum
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  Church
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  Monument
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  St. Dmytro Church
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  Water tower
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  Sofino-Bridska rail station
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  Snizhne apartment blocks