Chuhinka is a small

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Shyrokyi rural hromada Shyrokyi rural hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Shchastia Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the village of Shyrokyi. It has an area of and a population of 6,652, as of 2020. The hromada contains 14 settlements, i ...

Shchastia Raion Shchastia Raion (; ) is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The ''de jure'' administrative center of the raion is the city of ...

, in the eastern part of 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 ...

of Ukraine. It is near the border of

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and

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. The village was originally founded in the year 1720. According to the 2001 Ukraine Census, it had 1,128 residents, 92.73% of whom were Russian speakers. The area is mostly used for farmland, used by individual families after the breakup of the

Kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to eme ...

. There is a small river and a mountain. Nearby villages include Oleksandrivka 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 ...

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