Lysychansk

Lysychansk
Лисичанськ
	Lysychansk
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	no information
Area :	95.64 km²
Residents :	103,459 (2014)
Population density :	1,082 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	93100-93190
Area code :	+380 6451
Geographic location :	48 ° 55 '  N , 38 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '12 "  N , 38 ° 25' 12"  E
KOATUU :	4411800000
Administrative structure :	3 cities
Mayor :	Leonid Kryssanov
Address:	вул. Комсомольська 7 93100 м. Лисичанськ
Statistical information
Lysychansk

Lysychansk ( Ukrainian Лисичанськ ; Russian Лисичанск Lisichansk ) is a large city with about 100,000 inhabitants (2014) in the north of Luhansk Oblast in the Ukraine . It is located about 70 km north-west of Luhansk and 100 km north-east of the city of Donetsk in the neighboring oblast .

View of the city center

geography

Lysychansk lies on the bank of the Siversky Donets , the largest tributary on the right bank of the Don .

The municipality is administratively divided into the city of Lysychansk and the two other cities of Novodruschesk and Prywillja , which were incorporated in the 1960s .

history

In Ukraine war destroyed house in August 2016

The town, first mentioned in writing in July 1710, was the site of the first mine in the Donets Basin in 1786 . In December 1917 Lysychansk became Soviet and in 1938 the place received city rights.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 125 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . From May 22 to June 24, 2014, during the war in Ukraine , the city was under the control of separatist units of the Lugansk People's Republic , but was recaptured by the Ukrainian army.

Economy and Infrastructure

Lysychansk is an important location for the chemical industry in the region.

sons and daughters of the town

• Kliment J. Voroshilov (1881–1969), Soviet politician
• Artem Potschtarow (* 1993), badminton player
• Fedir Abramow (1904–1982), geologist and mining engineer
• Yevhen Potshtarev (* 1987), badminton player

Population development

1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2014
4.122	6,624	26,181	37,878	117,752	119,487	126.503	115.229	111,451	103,459

Source:

Web links

Commons : Lysychansk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ^ Local history of Lyssychansk in the history of the towns and villages of the Ukrainian SSR ; accessed on November 15, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.