Volodarsk (Ukraine)

Volodarsk
Володарськ
	Volodarsk
Basic data
Oblast :	Luhansk Oblast
Rajon :	Sverdlovsk city district
Height :	235 m
Area :	8.79 km²
Residents :	2,796 (2011)
Population density :	318 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	94822
Area code :	+380 6434
Geographic location :	48 ° 7 '  N , 39 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '27 "  N , 39 ° 35' 8"  E
KOATUU :	4412745300
Administrative structure :	2 urban-type settlements
Mayor :	Dmytro Andrijewskyj
Address:	вул. Совєтська 25 94822 смт. Володарськ
Statistical information
Volodarsk

Volodarsk (Ukrainian Володарськ - Ukrainian officially since May 12, 2016 Wedmesche / Ведмеже ; Russian Павловка / Pavlovka ) is an urban-type settlement in the south of the Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast with about 2,700 inhabitants.

Administratively, the place belongs to the municipality of the city of Sverdlovsk, which is 6 kilometers south-east, and forms its own settlement council, which also includes the urban-type Pavlivka settlement . The oblast capital Luhansk is located 51 kilometers northwest of the place, through the place the river Mala Medwescha (Мала Медвежа) flows.

Volodarsk in 1905 under the name Sobatschowka founded (Russian Собачовка) and contributed to the October Revolution, the name Schachty no. 10 (шахти № 10), in 1923 she received in honor of the Russian revolutionary V. Volodarsky the current name in 1938 the place to was Urban type settlement, since summer 2014 the place has been occupied by separatists of the Lugansk People's Republic during the war in Ukraine .

Web links

• Location information (Ukrainian)
• Entry on the place in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Верховна Рада України; Постанова від 05.12.2016 № 1351-VIII Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей