Bilokurakyne (, ) is a

rural settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

Svatove Raion Svatove Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the city of Svatove. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lu ...

in the

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 n ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Bilokurakyne Raion. It is located on the Bila River, a right tributary of the Aidar, in the basin of the

Don Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *Don (river), a river in European Russia *Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name * Don, Benin, a town in Benin * Don, Dang, a village and hill station in Dang district, Gu ...

. Population:

Economy

Transportation

Bilokurakyne is connected by road with

Starobilsk Starobilsk (; ) 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 As a result of the ...

where it has further access to Highway H26 ro

Svatove Svatove (, ; , ) is a city on the Krasna River in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Svatove Raion. Its population is It has been occupied by Russia since 2022. History After the proclamation of the s ...

and

Bilovodsk Bilovodsk () is a rural settlementin the Starobilsk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in the east of Ukraine on the banks of the Derkul river. It has an estimated population of Geography Bilovodsk is located on the Derkul river, a left tributary of the ...

, as well as to Highway H21 to

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 ...

. However, the section between

Shchastia Shchastia (, , ; ) is a city, the former ''de jure'' administrative center of Shchastia Raion in the Luhansk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its population was reported as The Luhansk power station, a large power plant built in the 1950s, is loc ...

and

is controlled by the

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 ...

, and free movement from Shchastia to Luhansk is impossible. There is a railway line in Bilokurakyne, which is currently disconnected from the rest of the railway network in Ukraine. To the south, it extends to Starobilsk and Kondrashivska Nova, in

Stanytsia Luhanska Stanytsia Luhanska (; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement on the banks of the Donets, Siverskyi Donets River in the Shchastia Raion of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Residence of Stanytsia Luhanska settlem ...

, and to the north it crosses the border to Russia, and further runs to

Valuyki Valuyki () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities *Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast, a town in Belgorod Oblast Rural localities * Valuyki, Moscow Oblast, a village in Teryayevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky Distric ...

. Bilokurakyne railway station has infrequent passenger traffic between Kondrashivska Nova and Lantrativka.

Demographics

As of the

2001 Ukrainian census 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.Vitalii Kurylo (born 1957), Ukrainian politician

References

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