[2] In September 1956, Voznesenivka, Novomykolaivka, Krasna Mohyla train station, and a residential neighborhood of the Chervonyi Partyzan Mine united into the urban-type settlement of Chervonopartyzansk.

[2] A Komsomol campaign in 1956 brought more than 2,000 young people from Odesa and Chernivtsi Oblasts and Moldavia to build five mines on the northern slope of Burhustyn gulch.

Human rights activist Pavlo Lisyansky wrote that the mine owners had egregiously ignored safety regulations and exceeded the safe maximum occupancy of twelve by stuffing twenty-five miners into the elevator.

He cited trade union sources that said the mine did this to save costs on electricity by avoiding doing two trips with the elevator.

Denis Kazansky, a Ukrainian journalist from Donetsk, said that the accident was a result of the collapse of the coal industry in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine due to Russia's occupation of the areas.