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Encyclopedia > Voroshilovgrad

Luhans'k (Ukrainian: Луганськ) is a city in eastern Ukraine. Administratively - a capital to Luhans'ka oblast' (province), historically - part of Donbas region. Population 445,900 (2004).


Luhans'k is an important industrial center of the Eastern Europe, particularly a home to the major locomotive-building company.


A metal factory was founded here in 1795. Luhans'k achieved the status of city in 1882. It was known as Voroshilovgrad from 1935 to 1958 and from 1970 to 1990 after a Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov.


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