Krasnodon

(settlement of Sorokino until 1938), a city in Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, in the Donbas, on the left bank of the Bol’shaia Kamenka River (a right tributary of the Severskii Donets River), 7 km from the Krasnodon railroad station on the Likhaia-Rodakovo line. Population, 70,400 (1972).

Krasnodon was founded in 1912 as a coal-mining center in the Donbas. During the prewar five-year plans, the old mines were reconstructed, and between 1936 and 1940 Mines Nos. 1, 2a, and 12 were built. In the postwar years ten new mines have been built in Krasnodon, including the Severnaia No. 2, Nos. 1–4, Samsonovskaia No. 1, Barakov, Duvannaia No. 2, Talovskaia No. 1 and Talovskaia No. 2, Sukhodol’skaia No. 1, Liutikov, and the Molodaia Gvardiia mines. Three large central washeries have also been built. Two new mines, the Samsonovskaia-Zapadnaia and Sukhodol’skaia-Vostochnaia, are under construction (1973). There are enterprises of the food-processing industry. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45, when Krasnodon was occupied by the fascist German troops, the underground Komsomol organization Young Guard was active in the city from October 1942 to January 1943. In May 1970 the new memorial complex, Young Guard, was opened in Krasnodon.

an urbantype settlement in Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, 14 km from the city of Krasnodon. It is situated in the Donbas, 3 km from the Semeikino railroad station on the Rodakovo-Likhaia line. There is coal mining. Krasnodon has a plant for the production of spare parts for automobiles and agricultural machines. Several members of the underground Komsomol organization Young Guard were from Krasnodon.