Velykyj Loh

Velykyj Loh
Великий Лог
	Velykyj Loh
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Krasnodon Raion
Height :	83 m
Area :	4.23 km²
Residents :	638 (01/01/2011)
Population density :	151 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	94480
Area code :	+380 6435
Geographic location :	48 ° 16 '  N , 39 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '31 "  N , 39 ° 34' 11"  E
KOATUU :	4421455300
Administrative structure :	1 urban-type settlement , 1 settlement
Mayor :	Serhiy Rybalkin
Address:	вул. Поштова 2 94480 смт. Великий Лог
Statistical information
Velykyj Loh

Welykyj Loh (Ukrainian Великий Лог ; Russian Великий Лог / Veliki Log ) is an urban-type settlement in eastern Ukraine with about 600 inhabitants.

geography

The place is in the east of the Luhansk Oblast on the river Velyka Kamjanka , about 6 kilometers south of the Rajons capital Krasnodon and 37 kilometers southeast of the Oblast capital Luhansk . Velykyj Loh forms administratively together with the settlement Verkhnya Krasnjanka (Верхня Краснянка) a settlement council municipality.

history

The place was founded in 1762 and was named Nyschnja Krasnjanka in 1925 (Лог / Log means "long and wide gorge" in Russian). In 1938 it was finally designated an urban-type settlement, and since 1991 it has been part of present-day Ukraine.

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. ↑ Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , November 7, 2014 N 1085-р (Ukrainian)