Posad

Posad represents the steppe country around the later city of Horlivka. In the eighteenth century Cossack winter quarters and farmsteads stood in the valleys of Sukhyi Yar and Zhovanyi Lis. By 1776 these had come together as the sloboda of Zaitsevo; its southern part was called Nikitivka after one of its inhabitants, Nykyta Deviatylov. These settlements preceded the coal-mining town that would later grow in the area.