Starobilsk (Ukrainian: Старобільськ, Russian: Старобельск) is a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.It serves as the administrative center of Starobilsk Raion.The modern settlement was founded in 1686, and it was granted city status in 1938. The city has a population of 16,267. As a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has been under Russian occupation since ...

Pervomaisk (Ukrainian: Первомайськ, Russian: Первомайск) is a landlocked city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, on the left bank of the Luhan River.Since 2014, the city has been controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. Population: 36,311, 38,435 (2013 est.).As of 2001 the population was 38,800. Northeast of Pervomaisk, there is the static inverter plant of ...

A briefing by the Ukrainian presidential administration reported that Russian troops had invaded Ukraine from the north (up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of the border), and Russian troops were active in Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and near Sumy. The press briefing also reported that Ukraine had repulsed an attack in Volyn Oblast. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry reported that …

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 …

Raions of Ukraine (often translated as "districts"; Ukrainian: ра́йон, tr. raion; plural: райо́ни, tr. raiony) are the second level of administrative division in Ukraine, below the oblast. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged.. On 17 July 2020, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's ...

Bilohorivka (Ukrainian: Білогорівка, pronounced [b⁽ʲ⁾iɫoˈɦɔr⁽ʲ⁾iu̯kɐ]; Russian: Белогоровка) is an urban-type settlement in Sievierodonetsk Raion in the Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 88 kilometres (55 mi) NW from the centre of Luhansk city and at about 25 kilometres (16 mi) WSW from Sievierodonetsk.

Géographie. Svatove se trouve à 127 km — 160 km par la route — au nord-ouest de Louhansk, en Ukraine.Elle est arrosée par la rivière Krasna (en ukrainien : Красна).C'est un important nœud ferroviaire et routier. Histoire. Le territoire de l'actuelle ville de Svatove commence à être peuplé de paysans et de Cosaques dans les années 1660.

Referendums on the status of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, parts of Ukraine that together make up the Donbas region, were claimed to have taken place on 11 May 2014 in many towns under the control of the Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. These referendums intended to legitimise the establishment of the so-called "republics," in the context of the …

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Sievierodonetsk, Sieverodonetsk, or Severodonetsk is a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.It is located to the northeast of the left bank of the Siverskyi Donets river and approximately 110 km (68 mi) to the northwest from the oblast capital, Luhansk.It faces Lysychansk across the river. The city, whose name comes from the above-mentioned river, had a 2021 population of 101,135, …