Lyman

This article deals with the city in the Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast; for further meanings see Lyman (disambiguation) .

Lyman
Лиман
	Lyman
Basic data
Oblast :	Donetsk Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	107 m
Area :	19.2 km²
Residents :	21,007 (2019)
Population density :	1,094 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	84400
Area code :	+380 6261
Geographic location :	48 ° 59 '  N , 37 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '10 "  N , 37 ° 48' 40"  E
KOATUU :	1413300000
Administrative structure :	1 city , 1 village, 3 settlements
Address:	вул. Фрунзе 46 84 400 м. Лиман
Website :	http://krliman.gov.ua/uk
Statistical information
Lyman

Lyman ( Ukrainian Лиман ; Russian Лиман Liman ) is the northernmost city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine . The city with 21,000 inhabitants (2019) is the administrative center of the Lyman district .

Orthodox church building in the city

The city is a railway junction with a train station including a marshalling yard on the Kharkiv – Horlivka railway and to the industrial centers of the Donets Basin and is therefore also known as the " North Gate of Donbass ".

Another name for the city is " Donetsk Switzerland " because of the pine forests and blue lakes in the area. Therefore, in addition to the railway operation, tourism is an important source of income for the city, because the beautiful and quiet environment not only attracts tourists and mushroom pickers, but also hunters who come across wild boars, deer, foxes, hares and sometimes wolves in the forests.

geography

The city is located in the Donbass seven kilometers north from the shores of Seversky Donets , 25 kilometers northeast of the nearest big city Slavyansk and 135 km north of the Oblastzentrums Donetsk .

For the township include, besides the city itself, nor the villages Brussiwka ( Брусівка ) Staryj Karawan ( Старий Караван ) and Schtschurowe ( Щурове ) and the settlement Stawky ( Ставки ).

history

Founded by the Cossacks in 1667 as Lyman (Лиман), the place was called Krasnyj Lyman (Красний Лиман) from 1925 to February 4, 2016 . The place has had the status of a city since 1938. In the course of the Second World War it was freed from occupation by the Wehrmacht on February 1, 1943 . Since November 26, 1979, Lyman has the status of a city under oblast administration.

population

Population development

1897	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2014	2019
4,653	3,402	25,201	28,911	30,383	31,755	31,192	28.172	26,040	22,315	21.007

Sources: 1897 1897 census; from 1926

Personalities

• Leonid Denissowitsch Kisim (1941-2010), Soviet cosmonaut
• Ihor Rasorjonow (* 1970), Ukrainian weightlifter

Web links

Commons : Lyman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org; accessed on December 12, 2019
2. ↑ Donetsk information portal (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 04.02.2016 № 984-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів
4. ↑ City history ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian)