Sakko i Vantsetti
Village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Sakko i Vantsetti
Сакко і Ванцетті | |
|---|---|
  Sakko i Vantsetti Location of Sakko I Vantsetti  Sakko i Vantsetti Sakko i Vantsetti (Ukraine) | |
| 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 | |
• Total | 3 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 84530 |
| Area code | +380 6274 |
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, but recaptured it in June.[5][6]
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.[7] The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the village,[8] 100% (3) of them reported Ukrainian as their native language.[9]
