A resident of Bakhmut, Oleksandr Sotnikov, filmed the frozen lake in the Stupky neighborhood using a drone. The lake formed on the site of a former salt mine. It happened just a few months before the open invasion by the Russian army, in 2021. Today, Stupky is occupied by the Russians, almost all buildings have…
On May 15, 2018, the Bakhmut Central City Library hosted a presentation of the second edition of the book “STOUPKY. The Fourth Dimension”, dedicated to the history of the Dutch salt mine “Peter the Great”. The mine was built by Dutch entrepreneurs in 1886 in the village of Stoupky near Bakhmut (formerly Artemivsk) in the…