Kripenskyj

Kripenskyj
Кріпенський
	Kripenskyj
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	City district of Antrazyt
Height :	198 m
Area :	11.6 km²
Residents :	6,941 (2011)
Population density :	598 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	94635
Area code :	+380 6431
Geographic location :	48 ° 5 '  N , 39 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '55 "  N , 39 ° 0' 58"  E
KOATUU :	4410346500
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement
Mayor :	Kateryna Otscheretjana
Address:	вул. 40 Років Жовтня 16 94635 смт. Кріпенський
Statistical information
Kripenskyj

Kripenskyj (Ukrainian Кріпенський ; Russian Крепенский / Krepenski ) is an urban-type settlement in the south of the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast with about 6,900 inhabitants.

Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of the city of Antrazyt, 4 kilometers northwest, and forms its own settlement council here, the oblast capital Luhansk is 58 kilometers north of the place, the Kripenka (Кріпенька) river runs through the place .

Kripenskyj comes from a mining settlement for the surrounding coal pits, the name derives from the western hamlet Malo-Kripenskyj (Мало-Кріпенський) (founded in 1777). It was elevated to an urban-type settlement in 1938 and has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic since summer 2014 during the war in Ukraine .

Web links

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