Stanytsia Luhanska

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Stanytsia Luhanska
Станиця Луганська
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Stanytsia Luhanska
Location in Luhansk Oblast
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Stanytsia Luhanska
Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°40′14″N39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°E / 48.67056; 39.47222
Country Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Province Luhansk Oblast
District Shchastia Raion
Hromada Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada
Founded1688
Area
  Total14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
Elevation
40 m (130 ft)
Population
 (2022)
  Total12,258
  Density840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
93600-93609
Area code +380 6472
Stanytsia Luhanska

Stanytsia Luhanska (Ukrainian : Станиця Луганська, lit. 'The stanitsa of Luhansk'; Russian : Станица Луганская, romanized: Stanitsa Luganskaya) is a rural settlement on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets River in the Shchastia Raion of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Residence of Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada. Population: 12,258 (2022 estimate) [1] . It is situated 20 km northeast of Luhansk. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative centre of the former Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion.

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History

Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the Don Cossacks in today's Ukraine.

During World War II, in 1942–1943, the German occupiers operated a Nazi prison in the settlement. [2]

Russo-Ukrainian war

War damage in 2016 2016-03-14 Stanica-1.jpg
War damage in 2016

Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in the Donbass region, [3] [4] including Stanytsia Luhanska. [5]

On 2 July 2014 unspecified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka. [6] The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists. [7] There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas. [8]

On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists. [5] The settlement remained under control of the Ukrainian authorities. [9] It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the Luhansk People's Republic and became regularly the victim of shelling. [10] An early 2017 agreement between the Ukrainian army and the separatist forces of the war in Donbass on the disengagement of forces in Stanytsia Luhanska failed to materialise. [10] [11] On 17 February 2022, the rebels shelled the town and a missile hit a school, injuring 3 people. They also left half of the town without electricity. [12] On 26 February, the settlement was occupied by Russian Ground Forces as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [13]

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: [14]

Notable people

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