Zaporizhia (Krasnyj Lutsch)
Zaporizhia | ||
Запоріжжя | ||
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Oblast : | Luhansk Oblast | |
Rajon : | Krasnyj Luch city district | |
Height : | 182 m | |
Area : | 2.2 km² | |
Residents : | 940 (2011) | |
Population density : | 427 inhabitants per km² | |
Postcodes : | 94550 | |
Area code : | +380 6432 | |
Geographic location : | 48 ° 16 ' N , 38 ° 43' E | |
KOATUU : | 4411645700 | |
Administrative structure : | 1 urban-type settlement , 1 village , 1 settlement | |
Mayor : | Olha Makjejewka | |
Address: | вул. К. Маркса 6 94550 смт. Запоріжжя |
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Zaporozhye (Ukrainian Запоріжжя ; Russian Запорожье / Zaporozhye ) is an urban-type settlement in the south of the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast with about 900 inhabitants.
Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of the city of Krasnyj Lutsch, 22 kilometers southeast, and forms its own settlement council to which the village of Artema (Артема) and the settlement Komendantske (Комендантське) belong, the oblast capital Luhansk is 54 kilometers northeast of the place, north of the The Otscheretyne – Swerewo railway runs through the village .
Zaporizhia in 1913 as a miner settlement named Tschekaljanez founded (Чекалянець), was in 1940 Schachty no. 53 renamed (шахти № 53) got its present name in 1963 and was elevated to the same urban-type settlement. Since the summer of 2014, the town has been occupied by separatists from the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine . The name of the place is derived from 1957 in the Saporiska-Komsomolska (Запорізька-Комсомольська) colliery based on Zaporozhye , but this was closed again in 1999 due to unprofitability.
Web links
- Location information (Ukrainian)
- Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)