Hirnyk (Luhansk)

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Hirnyk
Гірник
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Hirnyk (Ukraine)
Hirnyk
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Basic data
Oblast : Luhansk Oblast
Rajon : Rowenky District
Height : 212 m
Area : 0.55 km²
Residents : 817 (2011)
Population density : 1,485 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 94791
Area code : +380 6433
Geographic location : 48 ° 4 '  N , 39 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '6 "  N , 39 ° 11' 31"  E
KOATUU : 4412345700
Administrative structure : 1 urban-type settlement
Mayor : Vasyl Ivanovych
Address: вул. Молодіжна 8
94790 смт. Михайлівка
Statistical information
Hirnyk (Luhansk Oblast)
Hirnyk
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Hirnyk (Ukrainian Гірник ; Russian Горняк / Gornjak ) is an urban-type settlement in the south of the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast with about 800 inhabitants.

Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of the town Rowenky, 14 kilometers northwest, and belongs to the settlement council of Mychajliwka (4 kilometers to the west), the oblast capital Luhansk is 54 kilometers north of the place, through the place the river Juskina (Юськіна) flows.

Hirnyk was founded in 1962 and was elevated to an urban-type settlement in 1969. Since the summer of 2014, the town has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

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