Lutuhyne

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Lutuhyne
Лутугине
Lutuhyne Coat of Arms
Lutuhyne (Ukraine)
Lutuhyne
Lutuhyne
Basic data
Oblast : Luhansk Oblast
Rajon : Lutuhyne district
Height : no information
Area : 16.7 km²
Residents : 17,762 (2016)
Population density : 1,064 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 92000
Area code : +380 6436
Geographic location : 48 ° 24 '  N , 39 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '7 "  N , 39 ° 12' 37"  E
KOATUU : 4422210100
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Serhiy Boryssovich Moskalov
Address: вул. Крупської 15
92000 м.Лутугине
Website : http://gorod.lutacom.net/
Statistical information
Lutuhyne (Luhansk Oblast)
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Lutuhyne ( Ukrainian Лутугине ; Russian Лутугино Lutugino ) is a city in eastern Ukraine with about 18,000 inhabitants (2016). The city is the administrative center of Lutuhyne District .

Geographical location

Lutuhyne is located on the right bank of the Vilchivka River (Ukrainian Вільхівка ), an 83 km long tributary of the Luhan in the center of Lutuhyne district in Luhansk Oblast .

The city has a train station and is located 21 km southwest of the Oblast capital Luhansk on the national trunk road N 21 , which meets the international trunk road M 04 / E 50 10 km further north .

history

Due to the occurrence of coal, lime and sand, a factory and a train station were built at today's Lutuhyne in 1897, from which a settlement named Schmidtowka (Ukrainian Шмідтовка ), after a German entrepreneur named Schmidt, developed.

At the end of 1925 the place was renamed in honor of the Russian geologist Leonid Lutugin (1864-1915) in Lutuhyne. Lutuhyne has had city status since January 3, 1965.

Since the summer of 2014, the town has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

Population development

1939 1959 1970 1979 1989 2001 2016
4,168 11,375 13,878 15,572 18 973 18 833 17,762

Source:

Web links

Commons : Lutuhyne  - collection of images, 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)