Sievierodonetsk

During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine the town was captured late May 2014[7] by pro-Russian militants.[8] No Ukrainian presidential election in 2014 was held in the city as the militants did not allow the voting places to open and much of the Election commission property was either stolen or destroyed. On 22 July 2014, Ukrainian forces regained control of the city.[9][10] Heavy fighting continued around the city for a number of days; on 23 July 2014 the National Guard of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Army released a statement that said they were "continuing the cleansing of Sieverodonetsk".[11][12]

A bridge across Siverskyi Donets river was severely damaged during the war in 2014; it was re-opened in December 2016. The European Union contributed 93.8% of the funding for the restoration.[13]

• "Azot" – one of the largest chemical plants in Europe.
• «Khimpostavschik» private enterprise.
• «Himexelen, Ltd.»

Metallurgical industry

Severodonetsk Chemical and Metallurgical Plant "SHMZ"

The construction of the plant M8 began in 1963 in order to provide the USSR with semiconductor materials of germanium Ge and gallium Ga, which are part of the Lisichansk coal with a Ge content of 50 g/t, independent of exports from England. The design of the M8 production at the site of the Liskhimkombinat was carried out by the Moscow leading industry institute Giredmet under the leadership of the Patriarch of Metallurgy of germanium, Academician Sazhin. Together with Kazniienergetik, Alma-Ata (hand of works Eric Balfanbayev), Department of Heat Engineering of the OPI (assoc. Prizand) Department of TRRE MITHT (Reznik, Alexander Markovich), Department of the Theory of Processes and Devices of the Russian Federation KHPI (prof. Rozkin. assoc Storozhenko) was the first in the world to introduce the method of cyclone melting. The first industrial melting gave a negative result. The initial content of germanium in the raw material was not enough. At the board of the chief editor of the USSR Ministry of Color Metallurgy, the question was raised about the conservation of the completed M8 object with the dismissal of more than 400 employees. The plant's chief engineer, a world-renowned metallurgist scientist, B. T. Pergunov, came to the defense of the plant. He proposed to conduct a trial melting with mudstones of the Sakhalin deposit. This was sharply opposed by the then ordinary clerk of the central board, Gribov, with the words:"This is an adventure." By the decision of the head of Glavredmet Kostin, the trial melting was carried out and gave an excellent result. Supplies of raw materials were made bypassing Africa by sea due to the closure of Suez and the Arab-Israeli war, sometimes there were fires of coal-containing raw materials in the holds of bulk carriers. But still, from that moment M8-SHMZ fully provided the electronic industry of the USSR with a semiconductor, but then the era of silicon began, and the same Gribov came to the leadership of the central board and the development of advanced metallurgical production was stopped. The problem of germanium was solved, and they made us forget about gallium.