[2] The town is located in the central part of Donetsk Oblast, in the Donetsk-Makiivka conurbation.

[1] The town, when it was known as Proletarske, was taken over by Russian proxy forces during the war in Donbas that began in 2014.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine issued an edict renaming it to Piatypillia in accordance with decommunization laws.

[3] The town contains a bituminous coal mine and a structural steel plant.

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