Luhansk Luhansk Lobkowicz Category="Cities in Ukraine"Luhansk (Ukrainian: Луга´нськ, Luhans'k; Russian: Луга´нск, Lugansk) is a City in southeastern Ukraine. Administratively - a Capital city of Luhansk Oblast (province), historically - part of Donbass region. Population 445,900 (2004).

Located in the Donets Basin, Luhansk is an important industrial center of the Eastern Europe, particularly a home to the major Locomotive-building company.

Luhansk is twinned with Cardiff, Wales; Lublin, Poland; Pernik, Bulgaria; Székesfehérvár, Hungary; Saint-Etienne, France; Daging, China.

A metal factory was founded here in 1795, the beginnings of an industry that still thrives there today. Luhansk achieved the status of city in 1882.

[image] In World War II, Luhansk was captured and held by Nazis from 1941-1943. It was known as Voroshilovgrad from 1935 to 1958, and from 1970 to 1990, after Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov, who came from the city.

Personalities

Vladimir Dal (1801-1872), greatest Russian Lexicographer, born in Luhansk.
Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet military commander, born in a suburban of Luhansk

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