Luhansk, Ukraine

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🇺🇦 Luhansk, also known as Lugansk and formerly known as Voroshilovgrad, is a city in eastern Ukraine, near the border with Russia in the disputed Donbas region. Luhansk is currently the capital and administrative centre of the Luhansk People's Republic, an unrecognized breakaway state that was established in 2014 by pro-Russian separatists. The city and its surrounding areas have been one of the main sites of fighting in the Donbas war. Until its capture by the LPR, Luhansk was the administrative centre of Luhansk Oblast.

History The city traces its history to 1795 when the British industrialist Charles Gascoigne founded a metal factory near the Zaporizhian Cossacks settlement Kamianyi Brid. The settlement around the factory was known as Luganskiy Zavod. In 1882 the factory settlement Luganskiy Zavod was merged with the town of Kamianyi Brid into the city of Luhansk (also Luhanske, according to the Kharkiv orthography).

Located in the Donets Basin, Luhansk developed into an important industrial centre of Eastern Europe, particularly as a home to the major locomotive-building company Luhanskteplovoz. The city was occupied by Nazi Germany between 14 July 1942 and 14 February 1943.

On 5 November 1935, the city was renamed Voroshilovgrad (Ворошиловград, Voroshilovgrad; Ворошиловград, Voroshylovhrad) in honour of Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov. On 5 March 1958, after Khrushchev's call to not name cities after living people, the old name was reinstated.

On 5 January 1970, after the death of Voroshilov on 2 December 1969, the name changed again to Voroshilovgrad. On 4 May 1990, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city back its original name.

In 1994 a consultative referendum took place in the Donetsk Oblast and the Luhansk Oblast, with around 90% supporting the Russian language gaining status of an official language alongside Ukrainian, and for the Russian language to be an official language on a regional level.

During the war in Donbas, separatists seized governmental buildings in the region, proclaiming the Luhansk People's Republic. An independence referendum, unconstitutional under Ukrainian law, was held on 11 May 2014. This referendum was not recognised as legitimate by any government.

In August 2014, Ukrainian government forces completely surrounded rebel-held Luhansk. Heavy shelling caused civilian casualties in the city. On 17 August, Ukrainian soldiers entered the rebel-controlled Luhansk and for a time had control over a police station.

After the Ilovaisk counteroffensive, LPR forces regained Lutuhyne and other Luhansk suburbs. Ukrainian forces withdrew from the Luhansk International Airport on 1 September 2014, after heavy fighting.

Luhansk became the capital and the administrative centre of the rebel state of the Luhansk People's Republic. The administration of the Luhansk Oblast was moved to Sievierodonetsk by the government of Ukraine.

On September 30, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree declaring the annexation of four regions of Ukraine (Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhiya Oblasts) to Russia. The annexation was illegal under international law and was condemned by the General Assembly of the United Nations.

City districts • Artemivskyi Raion ◦ city of Oleksandrivsk ◦ urban-type settlement Yuvileine • Kamiano-Bridskyi Raion • Zhovtnevyi Raion • Leninskyi Raion.

Higher education Some of the more prestigious universities in Ukraine have their home in Luhansk. Luhansk is the location of the main campus of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Luhansk, East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University and of Luhansk State Medical University.

Luhansk, Ukraine 
<b>Luhansk, Ukraine</b>
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Luhansk has a population of over 401,300 people. Luhansk also forms the centre of the wider Luhansk Oblast which has a population of over 2,121,322 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Luhansk has links with:

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Antipodal to Luhansk is: -140.667,-48.567

Locations Near: Luhansk 39.3333,48.5667

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🇺🇦 Krasnodon 39.733,48.3 d: 41.8  

🇺🇦 Sorokyne 39.733,48.3 d: 41.8  

🇺🇦 Rovenky 39.333,48.067 d: 55.6  

🇺🇦 Antratsyt 39.083,48.117 d: 53.3  

🇺🇦 Sverdlovsk 39.633,48.067 d: 59.9  

🇺🇦 Starobilsk 38.917,49.267 d: 83.6  

🇺🇦 Torez 38.618,48.028 d: 79.9  

🇺🇦 Chystiakove 38.617,48.017 d: 80.9  

🇺🇦 Sievierodonetsk 38.5,48.933 d: 73.4  

Antipodal to: Luhansk -140.667,-48.567

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🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15316.1  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15216.3  

🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 14728.3  

🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14809.5  

🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 14809.5  

🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 14528.8  

🇨🇱 Concepción -73.05,-36.817 d: 14524.1  

🇨🇱 Chiguayante -73.017,-36.917 d: 14528.3  

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