Popasna

Popasna
Попасна
	Popasna
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Popasna district
Height :	244 m
Area :	28.79 km²
Residents :	21,241 (2016)
Population density :	738 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	93309
Area code :	+380 6474
Geographic location :	48 ° 38 '  N , 38 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '54 "  N , 38 ° 21' 37"  E
KOATUU :	4423810100
Administrative structure :	1 city
Mayor :	Yuri Ivanovich Onyshchenko
Address:	вул. Мічуріна буд. 1 93300 м. Попасна
Website :	http://popasnaya.at.ua/
Statistical information
Popasna

Popasna ( Ukrainian Попасна ; Russian Попасная Popasnaja ) is a city in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine with 21,257 inhabitants (2013).

Sign at the entrance to the village

Geographical location

The city, located in the Donets Basin , is the administrative center of the raion of the same name a few kilometers west of Pervomajsk and 85 km west of the Luhansk Oblast center .

history

Popasna was founded on the railway line to Debaltseve and Kramatorsk as a railway station in 1878. Since 1910 the place has been a major railway junction, which on October 24, 1938 received the status of a city. When it was elevated to the status of a city, the place was named LM Kahanowytscha in honor of the Soviet politician LM Kaganowitsch . Since 1944 the city has been called Popasna again.

In the course of the war in Ukraine , fighting broke out in the area; it was captured on July 8, 2014 by the separatist troops of the Lugansk People's Republic , but was brought back under Ukrainian control on July 22, 2014 by the Donbass battalion . Since then, the place has been close to the front line to the separatist areas and is repeatedly the target of rocket and artillery attacks.

population

Demographics

1923	1926	1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2016
5,585	7,745	26,350	31,027	31,012	30.209	30,257	25,951	24,112	21,241

Source:

Web links

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

• Page about the city (Russian)
• City Website Popasnaya (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Demography of Ukrainian cities on pop-stat.mashke.org
2. ↑ Page about the city ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)