Almazna (, ) is a small city in

Kadiivka urban hromada Kadiivka urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Kadiivka. The hromada contains 35 settlements: 6 cities (Almazna, Brianka, Kirovsk, Luhansk Oblast, Holubivka, Irm ...

Alchevsk Raion Alchevsk Raion (; ) 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 town of Alchevsk. Population: ...

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. The population of Almazna was estimated to be Industries within Almazna include

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and manufacturing; a coal mine is also located near the city. Since 2014, Almazna has been under the effective control of the self-proclaimed

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

Geography

Almazna is situated 65 km away from

Luhansk Luhansk (, ; , ), also known as Lugansk (, ; , ), is a city in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be making Luhansk the Cities in Ukraine, 12th-largest city in Ukraine. Luhansk served as the administra ...

, and 597.9 km away from

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

. The city is the source of the river Komyshuvakha, which originates in its eastern part, while the river Lomuvatka flows 1 km west of the city. The railway station Stakhanov (formerly known as Almazna), is located 2 km away from the city.

Demographics

As of the

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, yet a significant minority, which accounts for over 40% of the population claims to have an ethnic Russian background. The exact distribution of the population by ethnicity was as follows:

References

Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Populated places established in the Russian Empire Yekaterinoslav Governorate Kadiivka urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub