Alchevsk

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Alchevsk
Алчевськ
Coat of arms of Alchevsk
Alchevsk (Ukraine)
Alchevsk
Alchevsk
Basic data
Oblast : Luhansk Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : 240 m
Area : 49.01 km²
Residents : 109,772 (2015)
Population density : 2,240 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 94200
Area code : +380 6442
Geographic location : 48 ° 28 '  N , 38 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '0 "  N , 38 ° 47' 59"  E
KOATUU : 4411200000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Volodymyr Chub
Address: вул. Леніна 48
94220 м. Алчевськ
Website : http://www.al.lg.ua/
Statistical information
Alchevsk (Luhansk Oblast)
Alchevsk
Alchevsk
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Alchevsk (Ukrainian Алчевськ ; Russian Алчевск ) is a city in Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine . The city belongs to the Alchevsk- Stakhanov agglomeration , has 110,000 inhabitants (2015) and is an important center of metallurgy (two combines).

Main building of the Donbass University of Technology in Alchevsk

Alchevsk is located on the international trunk road M 04 / E 50 , via which the Luhansk Oblast Center can be reached after 44 km to the east.

history

A workers' settlement was founded in 1895 next to the Yuryevka railway station by the entrepreneur Oleksiy Altschewskyj . In 1901 the station and the settlement were renamed Alchevsk in honor of the tragically deceased businessman. In 1932 the place became a city. 1931–1961 was the city of Voroshilovsk (Ворошиловськ) after the Ukrainian People's Commissar and Soviet political functionary and Stalin companion Voroshilov 1961–1991 Komunarsk (Комунарськ) in honor of the Paris Commune . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the city was called Alchevsk again.

The city has been under the control of the internationally unrecognized People's Republic of Lugansk since 2014 and, according to the Ukrainian government, belongs to an area in which the organs of state power temporarily do not exercise their powers.

population

Population development
1923 1926 1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2015
9,308 16,018 54,531 97,561 122,818 119,756 125.502 119.193 109,772

Source:

Sports

The city is home to the Stal Alchevsk football club .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Alchevsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
  2. ↑ Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , November 7, 2014 N 1085-р (Ukrainian)