A little bit of history
#Bakhmut was founded in 1571 by the #Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible on the southern frontier of the young Russian state. Bakhmut watchpost was called a little fortress. Then sloboda (a settlement of free peasants) grew around.
#Bakhmut was founded in 1571 by the #Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible on the southern frontier of the young Russian state. Bakhmut watchpost was called a little fortress. Then sloboda (a settlement of free peasants) grew around.
A solid fortress was built under the reign of Peter the Great.
#Bakhmut and #Izyum Cossacks actually raided against each other. It was also seen as the center of "Slavic Serbia" /Serbian and other Balkan peoples' settlements during the reign of Catherine the Great
#Bakhmut and #Izyum Cossacks actually raided against each other. It was also seen as the center of "Slavic Serbia" /Serbian and other Balkan peoples' settlements during the reign of Catherine the Great
after the revolution 1917, the Bolsheviks renamed the city in honor of Comrade Artyom, a prominent figure in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the founder of the #Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic.
There's an argument of what should be called now #Bakhmut or #Artemovsk
There's an argument of what should be called now #Bakhmut or #Artemovsk
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