Vedmezhe

Vedmezhe (Ведмеже) or Volodarsk (Володарськ) is a rural settlement in Dovzhansk urban hromada, Dovzhansk Raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. Population:

History
The town has its origins in 1905, when an unnamed worker's settlement grew up around a mine named after the Marxist revolutionary V. Volodarsky. In 1923, it officially received the name Volodarsk. In 1938, it received urban-type settlement status.

During the war in Donbas, the town has been occupied by pro-Russian militants. In 2016, the Ukrainian government renamed Volodarsk to Vedmezhe as part of decommunization in Ukraine. In June 2020, the town was assigned to Dovzhansk urban hromada.

Demographics
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 3,208 people. Their native languages were:
 * Ukrainian: 33.38%
 * Russian: 65.85%
 * Others 0.37%