Yenakieve (Ukrainian: Єнáкієве, Yenakiyeve; Russian: Ена́киево, Yenakiyevo), is a city in the Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine and carries a special status within the region designated into a separate city raion (district). The city is located on the Krynka River about 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk.

Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal mining, metallurgy, chemical production and manufacturing. The city's outdated industry has caused accidents like that of a gas explosion which occurred in June 2008 at one of Yenakiieve's coal mines.

Yenakiieve was founded in 1898 when numerous workers settlements around the Peter's Iron and Steel Works were united into a single settlement named after Fyodor Yenakiyev. Its first coal mines were established already in 1883. The settlement was incorporated as a city in 1925.

In Yenakiieve located one of the oldest metallurgical factories of Ukraine - Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works

As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, its population is 104,000. Based on the census results, 13.8% of the city's population uses the Ukrainian language in their daily life, while more than 86% use Russian. The city is known as the birthplace of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (Ukrainian:  Ві́ктор Фе́дорович Януко́вич (help·info), Russian: Виктор Фёдорович Янукович; born July 9, 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.

Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. Subsequently he was Prime Minister of Ukraine from November 21, 2002, to December 31, 2004, under President Leonid Kuchma, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2004 presidential election, ultimately losing to Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych continued to lead his party, the Party of Regions, after the 2004 election, and he served as Prime Minister for a second time from August 4, 2006, to December 18, 2007 under President Yushchenko. On March 3, 2010, Yanukovych transferred the leadership of the party to Mykola Azarov.

Yanukovych won most votes in the first round of the January 2010 presidential election, and faced Yulia Tymoshenko in the second round of the election. Yanukovych won the second round of the election with 48.95% of the vote against Tymoshenko's 45.47%. He is the first directly elected president in Ukraine's history to win with less than 50% of the vote.