Antratsyt
Antrazyt (Ukrainian Антрацит; Russian Антрацит / anthracite ) is a mining town in the southeast of the Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. with 57,000 inhabitants ( 2013).
Importance acquired this city by its location on the highway Kyiv -Kharkiv - Rostov-on- Don, as the last Ukrainian city from the Russian border toward Rostov.
Boroughs
The municipality is divided administratively Antrazyt in the city Antrazyt and in the settlements of urban type
- Bokowo - Platowe ( Боково - Платове )
- Verkhny Naholtschyk ( Верхній Нагольчик )
- Dubiwskyj ( Дубівський )
- Kamjane ( Кам'яне )
- Kripenskyj ( Кріпенський )
- Schtschotowe ( Щотове )
And the villages
- Selenyj Kurhan ( Зелений Курган )
- Orichowe ( Оріхове )
And the settlements
- Lisne ( Лісне )
- Melnykowe ( Мельникове )
- Sadovyy ( Садовий )
- Stepowe ( Степове )
- Chrystoforiwka ( Христофорівка ).
History
Antrazyt was founded in the 1930s as Bokowo - anthracite near the Cossack village Bokowo. Your name carries anthracite by the extensive deposits of high-quality anthracite coal. In the 1970s, there were extensive efforts to improve the problematic environmental situation through large-scale reforestation of steppe land. From the economic decline of the Ukraine in the 1990s, anthracite was hit particularly hard, as all industries and almost all coal mines were abandoned. This situation has improved somewhat in the last years.
Population
Source: 1939-1970; 1979-2013
Sons and daughters of the town
- Vladimir Afanassjevitch Liakhov ( b. 1941 ), Soviet cosmonaut
- Alex Len ( * 1993), Ukrainian basketball player