Sakko i Vantsetti

This article is about the village in Ukraine. For other uses, see Sacco and Vanzetti (disambiguation).

Sakko i Vantsetti Сакко і Ванцетті
Village
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Coordinates: 48°44′46″N 38°01′54″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Bakhmut Raion
Hromada	Soledar urban hromada
Founded	1923/1924
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Population  (2001 census)
• Total	3
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	84530
Area code	+380 6274

Sakko i Vantsetti (Ukrainian: Сакко і Ванцетті; Russian: Сакко и Ванцетти, transl. Sacco and Vanzetti) is a village in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is part of Soledar urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

History

Sakko i Vantsetti was originally created as a commune in the Soviet Union in 1923–1924. It was closely connected to nearby Vasiukivka.[2] It was named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted in 1921 of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.[3] Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries.[4]

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured Sakko i Vantsetti, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of what they called "the only surviving house" in the village.[4] By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the village following local Ukrainian counterattacks.[5]

Demographics

The 1989 Census in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union recorded a total population of 19 in Sakko i Vantsetti, 12 men and 7 women.[6] The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the village.[7]

References

1. "Сакко і Ванцетті - Донецька область". decentralization.gov.ua. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
2. "Васюківка, Артемівський район, Донецька область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
3. "Proclamation by the Governor" (1977), pp. 797–799; also included in Young and Kaiser, pp. 3–4, and Tropp, pp. 182–184.
4. "Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото)" [Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo)] (in Ukrainian). February 1, 2023. Archived from the original on February 1, 2023.
5. Grace Mappes; Kateryna Stepanenko; Nicole Wolkov; Layne Philipson; Frederick W. Kagan (May 18, 2023). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18, 2023". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved May 19, 2023. The milbloggers also claimed that Russian forces retreated from positions north of Sakko i Vantsetti (15km north of Bakhmut) to positions south of the settlement, but that Ukrainian forces have not yet entered the settlement.
6. "19A0501_061_014. Number of actual and permanent population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI". State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
7. "19A0501_07_014. Number of actual population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI". State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved February 1, 2023.