Switlodarsk

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Switlodarsk
Світлодарськ
Coat of arms is missing
Switlodarsk (Ukraine)
Switlodarsk
Switlodarsk
Basic data
Oblast : Donetsk Oblast
Rajon : Bachmut district
Height : 172 m
Area : 2.12 km²
Residents : 12,164 (2013)
Population density : 5,738 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 84792
Area code : +380 6249
Geographic location : 48 ° 26 '  N , 38 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '7 "  N , 38 ° 13' 15"  E
KOATUU : 1410970500
Administrative structure : 1 city
Mayor : Anatoly Brechunets
Address: пр. Леніна 5
84792 м. Світлодарськ
Statistical information
Switlodarsk (Donetsk Oblast)
Switlodarsk
Switlodarsk
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Switlodarsk (Ukrainian Світлодарськ ; Russian Светлодарск / Swetlodarsk ) is a city in Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine with about 12,000 inhabitants.

View of the power station in the village from the bank of the reservoir

Until May 20, 2015, the city was administratively part of the city of Debaltseve , after which it came to Artemivsk Raion (now Bachmut Raion ) by decision of the Verkhovna Rada .

Switlodarsk is located in the central Donets Basin , about 24 kilometers southeast of the Bachmut Rajonszentrum , 17 kilometers from Debaltseve and 58 kilometers northwest of the Donetsk Oblast Center on the Luhan River and the Wuhlehirsk reservoir .

The city was founded in 1970 and was intended to serve as a housing estate for the workers of the Wuhlehirsk power plant . In 1992 it was granted city status.

During the Ukraine War , the city had been a frontline town since 2015 and was held by units of the Ukrainian Army, but became a ghost town with a few hundred inhabitants and 60 percent destroyed buildings.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова, План від 20.05.2015 № 458-VIII "Про зміну і встановлення меж Артемівського району Донеіцької област" "
  2. ↑ The ghost town Svitlodarsk srf News, 29 January 2015