In 1972, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Yasinovataya city was awarded the Diploma of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1976 Yasinovataya received the status of the city of regional subordination. In the town of Yasinovataya worked for P. F. Krivonos, V. I. Priklonsky, N. V. Brykalov, the future General V. M. Atkinson. Natives of the city were the people's artists of the USSR N. O. Gritsenko, V. I. Kovtun, a scientist, a laureate of the Lenin award F. O. Lubchenco, heroes of the Soviet Union E. M. Berezovsky, M. A. Raldugin, Heroes of Socialist Labor I. P. Odynytsya and N. Dmitry Gubenko, the deserved trainer of RSFSR V. S. Maryenko.There are about 265 enterprises of different forms of ownership in the territory of the city. The largest of them are the enterprises of the railway junction and the Yasinovatsky machine-building plant founded in 1947, which produces mining equipment.