Antratsyt

Antratsyt or Antratsit is a city in Eastern Ukraine. Until 1962 it was referred to as Bokove-Antratsyt. The metropolis is positioned within the southern part of the Luhansk Oblast. Antratsyt is incorporated as a metropolis of oblast significance and is the center of Antratsyt Municipality which includes six urban-type settlements. It also serves as the place of work of Antratsyt Raion, even though it does now not belong to the raion. Its populace is approximately 53,641. Evidence from archeological finds and burial mounds from 30,000 BC shows the Saltovo-Mayaki had been Antratsyt's earliest ancestors.

Since the Saltovo-Mayaki had been nomadic, the vicinity become left uninhabited and considered a part of the Wild Fields. It turned into most effective inside the late 16^th century that the Don Cossacks claimed the region, defensive it from Tatar and Mongol raids, and began farming settlements. In 1874, Cossack Ivan Dvuzhenov discovered coal close by and by using 1904, the Antratsyt Bokovsky Coal Mine became constructed. A small agreement grew across the mine and soon after, the Kolberg Coal Mine become constructed in 1912, permitting the agreement to develop and prosper. In 1920, the city was officially named Bokovo-Antratsyt after its first coal mine, which become later shortened to Antratsyt.