Kadiivka (Ukrainian: Кадіївка) or Stakhanov (Russian: Стаханов), is a city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Donbas, eastern Ukraine.

[2][3][4] Following their 2022 annexation referendum, Russia claimed the entire Luhansk Oblast, including Stakhanov (Kadiivka), as part of their Lugansk People's Republic (LPR / LNR).

[8] Kadiivka has its origins in the mid-19th century in the settlement of Shubynka, when coal mining was developing in the region.

[1] The city was briefly renamed Serho, after Bolshevik leader Sergo Ordzhonikidze (Ukrainian: Серго) between 1937 and 1940, before returning to the name Kadiivka from 1940 to 1978.

From April 2014, pro-Russia separatists started taking over parts of the south and east of Ukraine.

[26][2] The Ukrainian Government launched their Anti-Terrorist Operation in mid-April 2014, with the aim of taking back all territories under separatist control.

The referendums returned an overwhelming majority vote to cede from Ukraine into the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, however they were condemned by the west, and did not obtain international recognition.

[31] Any possibility of a breakaway 'Cossack Republic' ended with Dremov's death in a car explosion in late 2015.

[32][31] In October 2015, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine opened a Forward Patrol Base in the city, meaning that a small number of OSCE international monitors were based full-time in the city.

[35] In 2022, Russia's Wagner Group were reported to have significant bases in Kadiivka, and these were repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian strikes.

[1] There are three sports stadiums in the city (Pobeda, Yunost, and Vagonostroitel), and the Dolphin swimming pool.