Stanytsia Luhanska

Urban locality in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Rural settlement in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Stanytsia Luhanska Станиця Луганська
Rural settlement

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48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°E / 48.67056; 39.47222
Country	Ukraine
Province	Luhansk Oblast
District	Shchastia Raion
Hromada	Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada
Founded	1688
Area
• Total	14.6 km² (5.6 sq mi)
Elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Population (2022)
• Total	12,258
• Density	840/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 (Ukrainian: Станиця Луганська, romanized: Stanytsia Luhansʹka, 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.

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

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]

Russian 92.4%
Ukrainian 6.2%
Romani 0.2%
Armenian 0.2%
Belarusian 0.1%

Notable people

Oleksandr Pielieshenko (born 1994), Ukrainian weightlifter

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.
^ "Gefängnis Stanycno-Lugans'ke". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 27 December 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".
^ ^a ^b "Ukrinform - Ukrainian National News Agency".
^ "Районная власть Станицы-Луганской сообщила о последствиях и жертвах сегодняшнего обстрела".
^ "Військові заявляють, що літаки АТО над Станицею Луганського взагалі не літали".
^ "Самолеты, которые бомбили Станицу Луганскую, прилетели со стороны России, - журналист".
^ Hard lines: Access issues deepen Ukraine aid crisis, IRIN (4 March 2016)
^ ^a ^b Read more on UNIAN:ATO HQ doubts disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska soon (22-01-2017)
^ Disengagement of forces in Donbas stalled, Interfax-Ukraine (17.11.2017)
^ "Shelling by Russian-backed separatists raises tensions in east Ukraine". the Guardian. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
^ "SPRAVDI". Telegram. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
^ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.