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Dovzhansk
Sverdlovsk ( uk, Свердловськ, Romanization of Ukrainian, translit. ''Sverdlovs’k''; russian: Свердловск) is a city in Luhansk Oblast (Oblast, region) of south-eastern Ukraine on the border with the Russian Federation. Serving as the Capital city, administrative center of Sverdlovsk Raion (raion, district), the city itself is incorporated as a city of regional significance (Ukraine), city of oblast significance, does not belong to the raion, and is located approximately 80 km from the oblast capital, Luhansk. On 12 May 2016 it was renamed Dovzhansk (, translit. ''Dovzhansʹk'') by the Ukrainian government as part of Decommunization in Ukraine, decommunization. The city is controlled by the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic and the name change has not been enforced. Its population is estimated to be . From the point of view of Ukrainian authorities Sverdlovsk, as Dovzhansk, serves the administrative center of Dovzhansk Raion. Most of the city res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dovzhansk Raion
Dovzhansk Raion ( uk, Довжанський район, russian: Должанский район) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is in the city of Dovzhansk ( Sverdlovsk). Population: The area of raion is controlled by the Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed ..., which continues to use the old, pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine. The renaming and redistricting has thus not had any practical effect. References {{coord, 48, 28, N, 38, 34, E, type:adm2nd_region:UA, display=title Raions of Luhansk Oblast Ukrainian raions established during the 2020 administrative reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. The oblast's capital city, administrative center is Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the name ''Voroshilovgrad Oblast'' (, until 1958 and again from 1970 to 1991) in honor of Kliment Voroshilov. Its population is estimated as Important cities within the oblast include Alchevsk, Antratsyt, Brianka, Kirovsk, Luhansk Oblast, Kirovsk, Krasnyi Luch, Krasnodon, Lysychansk, Luhansk, Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Pervomaisk, Rovenky, Rubizhne, Sverdlovsk, Luhansk Oblast, Sverdlovsk, Sievierodonetsk, and Stakhanov, Ukraine, Stakhanov. , nearly all of the oblast is Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast, under the occupation of Russia, which claims the oblast as the Luhans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverdlovsk Raion
Sverdlovsk Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Sverdlovsk, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was , . History Since 2014 the raion has not been under the control of the Ukrainian government and has been part of the Luhansk People's Republic which continues using it as an administrative unit. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk. Sverdlovsk was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015 was merged into the raion. In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion Dovzhansk Raion, according to the law prohibiting the names of Communist origin. On 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (russian: Яков Михайлович Свердлов; 3 June O. S. 22 May">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 22 May 1885 – 16 March 1919) was a Bolshevik Party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919. He is sometimes regarded as the first head of state of the Soviet Union, although it was not established until 1922, three years after his death. Born in Nizhny Novgorod to a Jewish family active in revolutionary politics, Sverdlov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902 and supported Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction during an ideological split. He was active in the Urals during the failed Revolution of 1905, and in the next decade, he was subjected to constant imprisonment and exile. After the 1917 February Revolution overthrew the monarchy, Sverdlov returned to Petrograd and was appointed chairman of the Party Secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chervonopartyzansk
Chervonopartyzansk (, ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Municipality, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. Population: Geography The city is located in southeastern Luhansk Oblast in the middle of the main Donets drainage divide that separates the watershed of Velyka Kamianka to the north from watersheds of Kundryucha and Burhusta rivers to the south. Transport To the north the city is passed by Debaltseve–Zverevo railway line. Train station Krasna Mohyla is located within the city limits History In the 1930s, large deposits of anthracite were discovered in the area. The first mine #63 was built during the World War II (1944) and in 1947 Chervonyi Partyzan Coal Mine was founded. Its projected capacity was 2.5 thousands tonnes of fossil fuel per day. In 1949-1955 next to Chervonyi Partyzan, Provallya #1 and Provallya #2 were built. In 1956 these mines yielded 2.3 thousand tonnes of anthracite for Sverdlovskvuhillya Corporation. In September 1956 Voznesenivka, Novomykolaivka, Krasna M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luhansk People's Republic
The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, which claims Luhansk Oblast. It began as a breakaway state (2014–2022) and was then annexed by Russia in 2022. The city of Luhansk is the claimed capital city. Pro-Russian unrest erupted in the Donbas region in response to the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity. In April 2014, armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings and declared the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) as independent states, which received no international recognition prior to 2022. Ukraine and others viewed them as Russian puppet states and as terrorist organisations. This sparked the War in Donbas, part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War which also saw the Russian occupation and annexa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Regional Significance (Ukraine)
City of regional significance ( uk, місто обласного значення, ''misto oblasnoho znachennia'') in Ukraine was a type of second-level administrative division or municipality, the other type being raions (districts). In the first-level division of oblasts, they were referred to as ''cities of oblast significance''; in the first-level autonomous republic of Crimea, they were ''cities of republican significance''. The designation was created with the introduction of oblasts in 1932. It was abolished in a 2020 reform that merged raions together and integrated the city municipalities into them. Such city municipality was complex and usually combined the city proper and adjacent populated places. The city of regional (oblast) significance was governed by a city council known as ''mis'krada'', which was chaired by a mayor. There were instances where a municipality might have included only the city alone (city proper), while in others instances a municipality mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interfax-Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English & German. The company owns a 50-seat press centre. The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022) History Interfax was formed on 24 November 1992, the year following Modern history of Ukraine#Independent Ukraine (1991 to present), Ukraine's 1991 independence, by a team of 10 people in Kharkiv. In 1993 the agency moved to Kyiv. References External links * News agencies based in Ukraine Mass media in Kyiv 1992 establishments in Ukraine {{Ukraine-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English as the Bolshevists,. It signifies both Bolsheviks and adherents of Bolshevik policies. were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898, at its Second Party Congress in 1903. After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in the Russian Republic in November 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. They considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia. Their bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donbas
The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed from "Donets Basin", an abbreviation of "Donets Coal Basin" ( uk, Донецький вугільний басейн, Donetskyi vuhilnyi basein; russian: Донецкий угольный бассейн, Donetskii ugolnyi bassein). The name of the coal basin is a reference to the Donets Ridge; the latter is associated with the Donets river. There are numerous definitions of the region's extent. It is now most commonly defined as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The historical coal mining region excluded parts of these oblasts, and included areas in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Southern Russia. A Euroregion of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as stratum, rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years. Vast deposits of coal originate in former wetlands called coal forests that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian) and Permian times. Many significant coal deposits are younger than this and originate from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. Coal is used primarily as a fuel. While coal has been known and used for thousands of years, its usage was limited until the Industrial Revolution. With the invention of the steam engine, coal consumption increased. In 2020, coal supplied about a quarter of the world's primary energ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasyl Orlov
The name Basil (''royal, kingly'') comes from the male Greek name Vassilios (, female version ), which first appeared during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from " basileus" ( el, βασιλεύς, links=no), of greek origin, meaning "king", "emperor" or "tzar", from which words such as basilica and basilisk (via Latin) as well as the eponymous herb basil (via Old French) derive, and the name of the Italian region Basilicata, which had been long under the rule of the Byzantine Emperor (also called ''basileus''). It was brought to England by the Crusaders, having been common in the eastern Mediterranean. It is more often used in Britain and Europe than in the United States. It is also the name of a common herb. In Arabic, Bas(s)el (, ''bāsil'') is a name for boys that means "brave, fearless, intrepid". Different derived names in different languages include Barsegh in Armenian; Basile in French; Basilius in German; Basilio in Italian and Spanish; Basílio in Portuguese; Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
