Shakhtarske (Ukrainian: Шахтарське, IPA: [ʃɐxˈtɑrsʲke]), formerly known as Pershotravensk (Ukrainian: Першотравенськ, IPA: [perʃoˈtrɑwenʲsʲk]) between 1960 and 2024, is a city and municipality in Synelnykove Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

[citation needed] On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to seven, the city of Pershotravensk was merged into Synelnykove Raion.

[3][4] In April 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy", which mandated Pershotravensk's name to be changed, because it commemorated the Communist International Workers' Day which is celebrated on 1 May (Pershe Travnia in Ukrainian).

[5] On April 3, the Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning [uk] in the Verkhovna Rada stated their support for renaming the city back to its original name of Shakhtarske.

[6] On 19 September 2024, the Verkhovna Rada voted to rename Pershotravensk to Shakhtarske.