Lutuhyne

City in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

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City in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Lutuhyne Лутугине (Ukrainian)
City
Boulevard in Lutuhyne
Flag Coat of arms
48°24′07″N 39°12′37″E / 48.4019°N 39.2103°E / 48.4019; 39.2103
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Luhansk Oblast
Raion	Luhansk Raion
Hromada	Lutuhyne urban hromada
Population (2022)
• Total	17,061
Area code	(+380)
Vehicle registration	BB / 13
Climate	Dfa

Lutuhyne (Ukrainian: Лутугине, Russian: Лутугино) is a city in the Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region) of Eastern Ukraine, Donbas. Residence of Lutuhyne urban hromada. The 2022 population was 17,061 (2022 estimate).^[1]

History

From mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Luhansk Oblast,^[2]^[3] including Lutuhyne.^[4] On 27 July 2014, Ukrainian forces claimed their troops had entered the city, and would restore Ukrainian control, yet by autumn it was clear that Lutuhyne was under the control of the pro-Russian, self-declared Lugansk People's Republic, and would remain that way from autumn 2014 on. ^[5]^[6] Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the settlement as their territory.

Demographics

Ethnic composition and native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:^[7]^[8]

Ethnic groups in Lutuhyne
			percent
Ukrainians			66.63%
Russians			31.00%
Belarusians			0.70%
Armenians			0.41%

Native languages in Lutuhyne
			percent
Russian			56.93%
Ukrainian			42.35%
Armenian			0.26%
Belarusian			0.06%

Gallery

Lutuhyne church
Monument to L.I. Lutugin, founder of the city

Notable people

Ihor Shvaika (born 1976), Ukrainian politician (Svoboda)

References

^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ Ragozin, Leonid (16 April 2014). "Vladimir Putin is Accidentally Bringing Eastern and Western Ukraine Together". The New Republic.
^ "Donbass defenders put WWII tank back into service".
^ "Specter of violence in eastern Ukraine keeps voters from polls - May. 24, 2014". 24 May 2014.
^ "ATO forces take over Debaltseve, Shakhtarsk, Torez, Lutuhyne, fighting for Pervomaisk and Snizhne underway - ATO press center".
^ Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
^ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.
^ https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities