Krasnodon

Krasnodon Краснодон
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Krasnodon Location of Krasnodon
Coordinates: 48°18′0″N 39°44′0″E
Country Oblast	Ukraine Luhansk Oblast
Founded	1914 as Sorokino
Renamed	1938 as Krasnodon
Government
• Mayor	Yuri Borisovich Baklagov
Area
• Total	77.33 km2 (29.9 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	49,921
Postal code	94400
Area code(s)	+380 6435
Website	http://krasnodon.org.ua/

Krasnodon (Ukrainian and Russian: Краснодон) is a city in the Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Krasnodon Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.

The population of Krasnodon in 1972 was 70,400, in 1989 it was around 53,000, in 2001 it was 49,921.

History

Krasnodon was established in 1914 along the banks of the Welikyj Kamjaniza, a tributary of the Seversky Donets River, as the settlement of Sorokino. It soon became one of the centers of the coal mining industry of the Donbass region. By a Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, on October 28, 1938 it was renamed Krasnodon.

During the German-Soviet War Krasnodon was occupied by Nazi Germany from July 20, 1942 to February 14, 1943. In that period, between October 1942 and January 1943, the anti-nazi Komsomol organization Young Guard operated in the city. There are monuments and the memorial complex built to the Young Guard in Krasnodon.

See also

• Oleg Koshevoy
• Ivan Turkenich

External links

• (Russian) Official city page
• (Russian) Krasnodon - our city