Krasnyj Luck

This article is about the city in Ukraine, for information on other places in Ukraine and Russia, see Krasnyj Luch (disambiguation) .

Krasnyj Luck
Красний Луч
	Krasnyj Luck
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	320 m
Area :	153.56 km²
Residents :	81,162 (2013)
Population density :	529 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	94500-94529
Area code :	+380 6432
Geographic location :	48 ° 8 ′  N , 38 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 38 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU :	4411600000
Administrative structure :	4 cities, 8 SsT , 5 villages, 6 settlements
Mayor :	Mykola Antoshchenko
Address:	вул. Комуністична 33 94 500 м. Красний Луч
Website :	http://krluch.org/
Statistical information
Krasnyj Luck

Krasnyj Lutsch (Ukrainian Красний Луч - Ukrainian officially since May 12, 2016 Khrustalnyj / Хрустальний ; Russian Красный Луч / Krasny Lutsch , literally "red rays of light") is a city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine . The city on the Mius , in the center of the Donets Basin , has around 80,000 inhabitants (2012).

City administration building of Krasnyj Luch

geography

The entire municipality of Krasnyj Luch has 124,033 inhabitants (November 2012), is directly subordinate to the oblast administration and is completely enclosed by the Antrazyt Rajon , administratively divided into the actual city of Krasnyj Luch and the three other cities

• Miusynsk
• Petrovke (officially since 2016 Petrovo-Krasnosillja / Петрово-Красносілля)
• Wachrusheve (officially since 2016 Bokowo-Khrustalne / Боково-Хрустальне)

in 8 urban-type settlements

• Chrustalne
• Fedorivka
• Hruschowe
• Knjahynivka
• Zaporizhia
• Sadowo-Khrustalnenskyj
• Sherivka
• Sofiyivskyi

5 villages

• Artema ( Артема - officially since 2016 Scherebjatsche / Жереб'яче)
• Korinne ( Корінне )
• Lisne ( Лісне )
• Novojelysavetivka ( Новоєлизаветівка )
• Voskressenivka ( Воскресенівка )

and 6 settlements

• Butkewytsch ( Буткевич )
• Khrustalnyj ( Хрустальний ).
• Davydivka ( Давидівка )
• Komendantske ( Комендантське )
• Trubnyj ( Трубний )
• Werhulivske ( Вергулівське ).

history

The city was founded in 1895 as Krindachevka (Russian Криндачевка) and has been called Krasnyj Lutsch since 1920 .

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 256 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

Since the summer of 2014, the city has been occupied by separatist units from the Lugansk People's Republic .

Economy and Infrastructure

Krasnyj Lutsch is characterized by coal mining. In addition, the city is a center of mechanical engineering and the location of a meat combine.

There is a railway connection to the Otscheretyne – Swerewo railway line .

Population development

1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2013
1,811	7.009	59.271	93,764	102,636	105,946	113.278	94,875	89,688	81,162

Source: 1923–1989:; 2001-2013:

Personalities

• Leonid Ossipenko (1920–1997), Soviet submarine commander and rear admiral
• Pawel Stolbow (1929–2011), Soviet artistic gymnast
• Mykola Schmatko (* 1943), Ukrainian sculptor and painter
• Vladimir Valujew (* 1947), Russian admiral
• Anatoli Konkow (* 1949), Soviet-Ukrainian football player and coach
• Viktor Plakida (* 1956), Ukrainian politician
• Oleksij Danilow (* 1962), Ukrainian politician
• Oleg Kutscherenko (* 1968), Soviet and German wrestler and Olympic champion
• Natalija Korolewska (* 1975), Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician
• Hanna Skydan (* 1992), Ukrainian and Azerbaijani hammer thrower

Web links

Commons : Krasnyj Lutsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей
2. ↑ ^{a b} Population development ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on World Gazetteer 
3. ↑ Demography on the statistics pages of Luhansk Oblast ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian) 
4. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей
5. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей
6. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей
7. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Ernst and Werner Gieseking publishing house, Bielefeld 1962-1977.
8. ↑ Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , November 7, 2014 N 1085-р (Ukrainian)
9. ↑ Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org