Bakhmut
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Bakhmut Бахмут |
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| City of regional significance | |||
Bakhmut skyline
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 Bakhmut
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| Coordinates: 48°35′29″N 38°4′50″E / 48.59139°N 38.08056°ECoordinates: 48°35′29″N 38°4′50″E / 48.59139°N 38.08056°E | |||
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 Ukraine
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| Oblast |
 Donetsk Oblast
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| Founded | before 1571 | ||
| Area | 41.6 km2 (16.1 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 200 m (700 ft) | ||
| Population (2015) | 77,177 | ||
| Climate | Dfb | ||
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Bakhmut (Ukrainian: Ба́хмут, Russian: Бахмут) formerly Artemivsk/Artyomovsk (Ukrainian: Артемівськ, Russian: Артёмовск), is a city of regional significance in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. On 4 February 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed the name change of the city by returning to the original one. The city serves as an administrative center of Bakhmut Raion although it does not belong to the raion. It is located on the Bakhmutka River about 89 km away from the administrative center of the Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk. Population: 77,177 (2015 est.)
There is evidence of prior settlement in 1556. However, officially it was founded in 1571 and named as Bakhmut fort after the river Bakhmutka (a tributary of the Seversky Donets) on which it is situated. The settlement initially began as a border point and was later turned into a fortification. The name derived from Tatar name Mahmud or Mahmet. In 1701, Peter I ordered to build a fort and rename the town from Bahmut to Bakhmut. The fort was completed in 1703. In 1704 Peter the Great issued a ukase permitting Cossacks to settle in Bakhmut.
In the autumn of 1705, a detachment of Cossacks headed by Ataman Kondraty Bulavin captured the Bakhmut salt mines, which later caused the town to be one of the centers of the Bulavin Rebellion, and held the city until March 7, 1708 when it was seized by government troops. From 1708 to April 22, 1725, Bakhmut is situated in the Azov Governorate, and on May 29, 1719 becomes the administrative center of Bakhmut Province within the governorate. From 1753 to 1764, it was a main city of the Slavo-Serbia territory inhabited by colonists from Serbia and elsewhere.
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