Novoswitlivka

This article is about an urban-type settlement in Luhansk Oblast. For the village of the same name in Mykolaiv Oblast, see Novoswitliwka (Wesselynowe) .

Novoswitlivka
Новосвітлівка
	Novoswitlivka
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Krasnodon Raion
Height :	55 m
Area :	Information is missing
Residents :	3,717 (2014)
Postcodes :	94456
Area code :	+380 6435
Geographic location :	48 ° 30 '  N , 39 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '41 "  N , 39 ° 30' 13"  E
KOATUU :	4421456200
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 2 villages
Address:	вул. Дорожна 40 94455 смт. Новосвітлівка
Statistical information
Novoswitlivka

Novoswitlivka ( Ukrainian Новосвітлівка ; Russian Новосветловка Novoswetlowka ) is an urban-type settlement in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine with about 3700 inhabitants (2014).

geography

Novosvitlivka is located on Luhantschyk ( Луганчик ), a 83 km long tributary of the Seversky Donets and at the highway M04 between the Krasnodon 30 km south-east lying and 19 km northwest lying Oblastzentrum Luhansk .

Novoswitliwka belongs administratively to the Krasnodon Raion and forms, together with the villages Kateryniwka (Ukrainian Катеринівка ) and Lysse (Ukrainian Лисе ) a settlement council municipality.

history

The village, founded in 1860, has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1961. In 2014, during the Ukraine crisis, there was fighting and great destruction in Novoswitlivka. Since the summer of 2014, the town has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

Web links

• Location information (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Demographics of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on September 29, 2014
2. ^ Fights in Luhansk and Novoswitlivka; on espreso.tv August 21, 2014 , accessed September 30, 2014 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Russian tanks in Novoswitliwka; on reuters.com from August 30, 2014 , accessed September 30, 2014
4. ↑ Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , November 7, 2014 N 1085-р (Ukrainian)