Lysychansk

Lysychansk (Ukrainian Лисичанськ; Russian Лисичанск / Lisichansk ) is a large city with about 105,000 inhabitants ( 2013) in the North of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. It is located about 70 km northwest of Luhansk and 100 km northeast of the city lying in the adjacent Donetsk Oblast.

Geography

Lysychansk Seversky Donets is on, the largest tributary on the right side of the Don.

The municipality is divided administratively into town Lysychansk and in the other two eingemeindeten in the 1960s cities Nowodruschesk (Ukrainian Новодружеськ ) and Prywillja (Ukrainian Привілля ).

History

Lysychansk was founded in 1795 and was in 1786 the site of the first mines in the Donets Basin. In December 1917 Lysychansk was Soviet, and in 1938 received the place a city charter.

In the city the POW camp consisted of 125 German prisoners of war of World War II.

Economy and infrastructure

Lysychansk is a major center of the chemical industry in the region.

Demographics

Source: 1923-1970; 1979-2013