Staryi Karavan

Village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Staryi Karavan Старий Караван
Village
48°54′58″N 37°47′05″E / 48.916111°N 37.784722°E / 48.916111; 37.784722
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Raion	Kramatorsk Raion
Area
• Total	0.56 km² (0.22 sq mi)
Elevation	73 m (240 ft)
Population (2001 census)^[1]
• Total	191
• Density	340/km² (880/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	84460
Area code	+380 6261

Staryi Karavan (Ukrainian: Старий Караван; Russian: Старый Караван) is a village in Kramatorsk Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 110.5 kilometres (68.7 mi) north from the centre of Donetsk city, on the left bank of the Siverskyi Donets river, that separates the village from Raihorodok. It belongs to Lyman urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

History

At the beginning of July 2014, during the war in Donbas, the village was liberated from pro-Russian separatists by Ukrainian forces.

At the end of May 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after the first Battle of Lyman, the village was captured by the Russian Armed Forces. The settlement was liberated by Ukrainian forces on 5 September, acting as springboard to launch the Second Battle of Lyman.^[2]

References

^ Distribution of the population by native language on ukrcensus.gov.ua
^ Kateryna Stepanenko; Katherine Lawlor; Grace Mappes; George Barros; Frederick W. Kagan (6 September 2022). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 6". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 17 September 2022. Geolocated footage posted on September 5 shows Ukrainian troops walking freely along a road in Staryi Karavan, about 10km northeast of Slovyansk.