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Dovzhansk Raion
Dovzhansk Raion (; ) or Sverdlovsk Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk, Population: which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The last estimates of the population of the raion, reported by the Ukrainian government, were The area of the raion is controlled by Russia, which continues to use the pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine. History Sverdlovsk Raion was created in 1938, soon after the founding of Sverdlovsk itself by the amalgamation of several local mining villages. In 1962, Sverdlovsk was designated as a city of oblast significance; while it still served as the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Raion, it was no longer part of it, and was instead subordinated directly to Luhansk Oblast. Portions of the raion were also split off and transferred to Krasnodon Raion and Antratsyt Raion. Territories of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast (; ), also referred to as Luhanshchyna (), is the easternmost Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the name ''Voroshilovgrad Oblast'' until 1958 and again from 1970 to 1991. It has a population of Important cities in Luhansk Oblast include Alchevsk, Antratsyt, Brianka, Kadiivka, Kirovsk, Luhansk Oblast, Kirovsk, Krasnodon, Khrustalnyi, Luhansk, Lysychansk, Pervomaisk, Luhansk Oblast, Pervomaisk, Rovenky, Rubizhne, Sievierodonetsk and Sverdlovsk, Ukraine, Sverdlovsk. All of the oblast is in the Donbas region. In 2014, large parts of the oblast, including the capital Luhansk, came under the control of Russian-backed separatists who declared the Luhansk People's Republic, leading to a War in Donbas (2014–2022), war against Ukrainian government forces. Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the oblast has come almost entirely under Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antratsyt Raion
Antratsyt Raion (; ) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine between 1938 and 2020 and the de-facto district of the Luhansk People's Republic, a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center was the city Antratsyt. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was Geography Antratsyt Raion bordered Lutuhyne Raion to the north, Sverdlovsk Raion to the east, Perevalsk Raion to the northwest, Shakhtarsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast to the southwest, and Matveyevo-Kurgansky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia to the south. History The raion was formed in 1938 during the times of the Soviet Union. It originally had the name Bokove-Antratsyt Raion, because Antratsyt was then known as ''Bokove-Antratsyt''. The raion's territory was the site of fierce fighting during World War II. In 1949, a settlement council of Mine No. 33/37 was transferred from Bokove-Antratsyt Raion to Rovenky Raion. In 1962, the city's name was shortened to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raions Of Luhansk Oblast
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as 'district' in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, in the case of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasnodon
Krasnodon () or Sorokyne (; ) is a city in Dovzhansk Raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. Residence of Sorokyne urban hromada. Its population is approximately Krasnodon came under control of pro-Russian separatists in early 2014, and was incorporated into the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). Since then, it has been continually controlled by the LNR, and since 2022, explicitly by Russia. History 20th century In the early 1910s, rich coal deposits were discovered in the area of the Donbas around modern Krasnodon. Entrepreneurs flocked to the area, and a number of coal mines were dug. A settlement began to grow along the left bank of the Velyka Kamianka, a tributary of the Donets River, known as Sorokyne. In 1914, the first coal was actually mined. This year is usually considered to be the official date of the founding of the settlement, Sorokyne. In 1916, 3,105 people lived in Sorokyne, and 776 miners worked at the mines. Sorokyne saw fighting during the Russian Civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorokyne Urban Hromada
Sorokyne urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Dovzhansk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Sorokyne. The hromada contains 44 settlements: 2 cities (Sorokyne and Sukhodilsk), 6 urban-type settlements (Izvaryne, Krasnodarskyi, Sievernyi, Sievero-Hundorivskyi, Teple, and Uralo-Kavkaz), 31 villages: And 5 rural-type settlements: Zahidniy, Nizhnya Shevyrivka, Porechye, Svitlichne, and Malokalynove. See also * List of hromadas of Ukraine References {{Luhansk Oblast Hromadas in Dovzhansk Raion 2020 establishments in Ukraine States and territories established in 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dovzhansk Urban Hromada
Dovzhansk urban hromada () is a nominal hromada of Ukraine, located within Dovzhansk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is Dovzhansk, also known as Sverdlovsk. The territory of the hromada has been occupied by Russia since before its creation on 12 June 2020, so its existence is only ''de jure'', not '' de facto''. The hromada contains 54 settlements: 2 cities ( Dovzhansk and Voznesenivka), 22 rural settlements (Valianivske, Vedmezhe, Velykokamianka, Dubove, Klenovy, Krynychne, Kundriuche, Naholno-Tarasivka, Novodarivka, Pavlivka, Shakhtarske, also Bratske, Valyanivsk, Dovzhanske, Ivashchenko, Kalynivka, Kiselev, Pokrovka, Prokhladne, Ustinivka, Fedorivka, and Khmelnytskyi), and 30 villages: See also * List of hromadas of Ukraine There are 1,469 hromadas (, ) in Ukraine. They were formed in 2020 (there are no hromadas in Kyiv, Sevastopol and in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea). A hromada is designated ''urban hromada'' if its administration i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hromadas
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A municipality is designated ''urban hromada'' if its administration is located in a city; ''settlement hromada'' if it is located in a settlement (''selyshche''), and ''rural hromada'' if it is located in a village ( ''selo'') or a '' selyshche''. Hromadas are grouped to form raions (districts); groups of raions form oblasts (regions). Optionally, a municipality may be divided into starosta okruhs (similar to civil parishes in Great Britain or frazioni in Italy), which are the lowest level of local government in Ukraine. Similar terms exist in Poland ('' gromada'') and in Belarus (''hramada''). The literal translation of this term is "community", similar to the terms used in western European states, such as Germany ('' Gemeinde''), France ('' commune''), Italy (''comune''), and Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Census (2001)
The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.In 2021, there will most likely be no all-Ukrainian census - Minister hromadske.ua (21 April 2020) The next Ukrainian census was planned to be held in 2011 but has been repeatedly postponed. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Development Of The Administrative Divisions Of Ukraine
Administrative divisions development in Ukraine reviews the history of changes in the Administrative divisions of Ukraine, administrative divisions of Ukraine, in chronological order. Russian Empire The Russian Empire had acquired much of the territory inhabited by Ukrainians between the mid 17th and early 19th centuries, which was organized into nine Ukrainian governorates: Chernihiv Governorate, Chernigov (Chernihiv in Ukrainian), Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Yekaterinoslav (Katerynoslav), Kiev Governorate, Kiev (Kyiv), Kharkov Governorate, Kharkov (Kharkiv), Kherson Governorate, Kherson, Podolia Governorate, Podolia (Podillia), Poltava Governorate, Poltava, Volhynian Governorate, Volhynia (Volyn), and the mainland part of Taurida Governorate, Taurida (or Tavriia, without the Crimean peninsula). Additional lands annexed from Poland in 1815 were organized into the Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire), Kholm governorate in 1912. Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1921) After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decommunization In Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Government of Ukraine, Ukrainian government approved Ukrainian decommunization laws, laws that Bans on communist symbols#Ukraine, banned communist symbols, as well as symbols of Nazism as both ideologies were deemed to be Totalitarianism, totalitarian. On 15 May 2015, President Petro Poroshenko signed a set of laws that started a six-month period for the removal of Soviet communist monuments (excluding World War II monuments) and renaming of public places that had been named after Soviet communists. At the time, this meant that 22 cities and 44 villages were set to get new names. Until 21 November 2015, municipal governments had the authority to implement this; if they failed to do so, the Oblasts of Ukraine, oblasts had until 21 May 2016 to change the names. If the settlement still k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Annexation Of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk And Zaporizhzhia Oblasts
On 30 September 2022, Russia, amid an ongoing invasion of Ukraine, unilaterally declared its annexation of areas in and around four Ukrainian oblasts— Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia. Most of Luhansk Oblast and part of Donetsk Oblast had been controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, while the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts were invaded by Russia in 2022. The boundaries of the areas to be annexed and their borders were not defined; Russian officials stated that they would be defined later. None of the oblasts were fully under Russian control at the time of the declaration, nor since. If limited to the areas then under Russian control (about 90,000 km2 or 15% of Ukraine's territory, roughly the size of Portugal) the annexation would still be the largest in Europe since World War II. The annexation occurred after internationally unrecognized referendums held days prior, which were organized by Russian occupation authorities in territories where hostili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Debaltseve
The Battle of Debaltseve was a military confrontation in the city of Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, between the pro-Russian separatist forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, starting in mid-January 2015 during the war in the Donbas region. The Russian forces composed mostly of "Wagner Group" soldiers recaptured Debaltseve, which had been under Ukrainian control since a counter-offensive by government forces in July 2014. The city lay in a "wedge" of Ukrainian-held territory bordered by the DPR on one side, and the LPR on the other, and is a vital road and railway junction. Separatist and Russian forces began a concerted effort to force Ukrainian troops out of the city on 16–17 January, sparking the battle. Heavy fighting went on until 18 February 2015, when Ukrainian forces retreated from Debaltseve to Artemivsk (present-day Bakhmut). It was the last major battle during the 2014–2015 phase of the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
