Kirovsk, Ukraine

Kirovsk (Ukrainian Кіровськ; Russian Кировск / Kirovsk ) is a city of regional significance in the Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine with about 29,000 inhabitants ( 2013).

Geography

The city is on a river in the eastern Donets Basin Luhan far from Stakhanov and about 55 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Luhansk.

For township Kirovsk include, besides the town itself, nor the settlements of urban type

  • Donezkyj (Ukrainian Донецький ), own municipal council community
  • Nowotoschkiwske (Ukrainian Новотошківське ), own municipal council community
  • Tscherwonohwardijske (Ukrainian Червоногвардійське ), own municipal council community

As well as the villages

  • Krynytschne ( Криничне ), municipal council community Tscherwonohwardijske
  • Tawrytschanske ( Тавричанське ), municipal council community Tscherwonohwardijske

History

The city was founded in 1764 under the name Holubiwka. From July 12, 1942 to September 3, 1943, the place of troops of the German Wehrmacht was occupied.

After the Second World War was in the city a camp for German prisoners of war (storage Golubowka ) with an anti-fascist school, which was beginning under the direction of the later people police functionary Paul Ludwig.

Got its name, the city in 1962 after Sergei Kirov, a Soviet state and party functionaries, together with the maintenance of the status of a city of regional significance.

For the football club FK Anthracite Kirovsk, who played at times in the highest Ukrainian football league, the Premjer - Liha 1996 showed the successful football club FK Metalurh Donetsk.

Demographics

Sources: 1923-1926, 1970; 1939; , 1979; 1989-2013

Personalities

  • Oleksandr Horschkow ( b. 1970 ); Russian / Ukrainian professional football player
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