Kurakhove
Kurakhove is a city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Population: 18,220; 21,479. Kurakhove is home to the Kurakhove Power Station. The city has been under Russian occupation since December 2024, the power station since January 2025.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,200 residents
- Description: city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Kurakhovstroy”, “Novo-Ulakly”, “Petrovka”, “Roy”, and “Roya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Роя and Kurakhove Power Station.
Kurakhove Power Station
Power station
Photo: Dedushka udik3, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kurakhove Power Station was a thermal power plant on Volycha river 15 kilometres from Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. By November 2024, it was decommissioned and largely destroyed by Russian forces during the Battle of Kurakhove. Kurakhove Power Station is situated 3½ km west of Kurakhove.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stepanivka and Illinka.
Stepanivka
Hamlet
Stepanivka is a village in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. On November 1, 2024 Russia claimed to have captured the village, Deepstatemap confirmed this on November 4. Stepanivka is situated 3½ km northeast of Kurakhove.
Illinka
Village
Illinka is an rural settlement in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is part of Kurakhove urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 440. Illinka is situated 3½ km northeast of Kurakhove.
Ostrivske
Village
Ostrivske is a rural settlement near Kurakhove in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast. It was captured by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in October 2024. Ostrivske is situated 5 km northeast of Kurakhove.
Kurakhove
- Categories: city in Ukraine, city, city or town, and locality
- Location: Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Eastern Ukraine, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.98352° or 47° 59′ 1″ northLongitude
37.28264° or 37° 16′ 58″ eastPopulation
20,200Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)Open location code
8GVVX7MM+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 70950474OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
695357Wikidata ID
Q1023513
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kurakhove” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوراخوف”
- Armenian: “Կուրախովո”
- Belarusian: “Курахава”
- Belarusian: “Курахавэ”
- Catalan: “Kuràkhove”
- Cebuano: “Kurakhove”
- Chechen: “Курахово”
- Chinese: “库拉霍沃”
- Chinese: “库拉霍韦”
- Chinese: “庫拉霍韋”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kurahove”
- Czech: “Kurachove”
- Czech: “Kurachovgres”
- Czech: “Kurachovgresstroj”
- Czech: “Kurachovo”
- Danish: “Kurakhove”
- Dutch: “Koerachove”
- Estonian: “Kurahhove”
- Estonian: “Kurahhovo”
- Finnish: “Kurah’ivdres”
- Finnish: “Kurah’ivdresbud”
- Finnish: “Kurah’ove”
- Finnish: “Kurahovo”
- French: “Kourakhove”
- Georgian: “კურახოვე”
- Georgian: “კურახოვი”
- Georgian: “კურახოვო”
- German: “Kurachowe”
- German: “Kurachowo”
- Greek: “Κουράκοβο”
- Greek: “Κουραχόβε”
- Greek: “Κουράχοβο”
- Hungarian: “Kurahove”
- Italian: “Kurachove”
- Korean: “쿠라호베”
- Latvian: “Kurahove”
- Lithuanian: “Kurachovas”
- Lithuanian: “Kurachovė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurakhove”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurakhove”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurakhovo”
- Norwegian: “Kurakhove”
- Ossetian: “Курахово”
- Persian: “کوراخوفه”
- Polish: “Kurachowe”
- Polish: “Kurachowo”
- Portuguese: “Kurakhove”
- Romanian: “Kurahove”
- Romanian: “Kurakhove”
- Russian: “Кураховгрэс”
- Russian: “Курахово”
- Serbian: “Курахове”
- Silesian: “Kurachowe”
- Slovenian: “Kurahove”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوراخوفه”
- Spanish: “Kurájove”
- Swedish: “Kurachove”
- Swedish: “Kurachovo”
- Tatar: “Курахове”
- Thai: “กูราคอแว”
- Ukrainian: “Kurakhove”
- Ukrainian: “Курахівдрес”
- Ukrainian: “Курахівдресбуд”
- Ukrainian: “Курахове”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kurachowe”
- Uzbek: “Kuraxov”
- Vietnamese: “Kurakhove”
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