The settlement was founded in the early 20th century where it was named
Ivanovsky Rudnik, then
Gustav in 1912 after the entrepreneur. In 1919, the settlement was renamed to
Lotikovo, in memory of the Bolshevik revolutionary Vasiliya Petrovicha Lotikova. On May 12, 2016, the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had de jure renamed the settlement to
Ivanivske, but the change is de facto not recognized by the
Luhansk People's Republic. ==Demographics==