Eastern Ukraine

Eastern Ukraine is the industrial coal-mining region of , home to much of the country's ethnic Russian population.
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is a major city in the region of and is the second largest city in Ukraine with a population of over 1.5 million inhabitants. The city is in the northeast of the Ukraine.

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, formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka, Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern located on the River in , which is currently occupied by as the capital of the People's Republic.

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, until May 2016 known as Dnipropetrovsk or Dnepropetrovsk, is a major industrial city in Eastern Ukraine. It is named after the Dnieper River than runs through it. You may find some interesting and useful information about on unofficial website.

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The is a region in Eastern Ukraine that is partially occupied by Russia, which claimed in 2022 to have annexed it.

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The is a mainly Russian-occupied oblast in Eastern Ukraine. Part of the oblast was governed as the Luhansk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state that was governed by pro-Russian separatists until Russia annexed it in 2022.

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, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast , situated on the banks of the . It is the administrative centre of .

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or Lugansk is the capital of Oblast. All information given below dates from before fighting began in 2014. Given the volatility of the situation, more recent information is not reliable.

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, is an industrial city of 660,000 people in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, . Its principal industry is steel manufacturing.

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is in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Eastern Ukraine, though under Russian control since March 2022. It is in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region, 30 km from the Sea of Azov and 5 km from the Molochny estuary of the Sea of ​​Azov.

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is in Pryazovia, Eastern Ukraine. It is a spa therapy resort. There are more than 70 health institutions: health centers, children’s sports and recreational facilities, recreation centers, which can accommodate at least 15,000 people.

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is a port city along the Sea of Azov in , southern . It serves as the administrative centre of . Since 9 November 2022, it has served as the temporary administrative centre of the Russian occupation administration in the region.

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is a city in central , located within . It serves as the administrative center of . Its population is approximately 101,430.

Eastern Ukraine

  • Type: region with 14,500,000 residents
  • Description: geographic region
  • Also known as: “east Ukraine”, “estul Ucrainei”, “Region oriental de Ucrania”, “Ukraine east”, “усход Украіны”, and “ウクライナ東部”
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
48.6° or 48° 36′ north
Longitude of center
37.7° or 37° 42′ east
Population
14,500,000
Wiki­data ID
Q181386
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Eastern Ukraine” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شرق أوكرانيا”
  • Basque: “Ekialdeko Ukraina”
  • Belarusian: “Усходняя Украіна”
  • Belarusian: “Усходняя Ўкраіна”
  • Catalan: “Ucraïna Oriental”
  • Chinese: “乌克兰东部”
  • Chinese: “東烏克蘭”
  • Chinese: “烏克蘭東部”
  • Czech: “východní Ukrajina”
  • Czech: “Východní Ukrajina”
  • Danish: “Østukraine”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ukrayna Rocvetışi”
  • Dutch: “Oost-Oekraïne”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Ukrainio”
  • Estonian: “Ida-Ukraina”
  • Finnish: “Itä-Ukraina”
  • French: “Ukraine orientale”
  • German: “Ostukraine”
  • Greek: “Ανατολική Ουκρανία”
  • Hebrew: “מזרח אוקראינה”
  • Irish: “oirthear na hÚcráine”
  • Italian: “Ucraina orientale”
  • Japanese: “東ウクライナ”
  • Korean: “동우크라이나”
  • Latvian: “Austrumukraina”
  • Malay: “Ukraine timur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Ukraina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Ukraina”
  • Norwegian: “Øst-Ukraina”
  • Persian: “شرق اوکراین”
  • Polish: “wschodnia Ukraina”
  • Romanian: “Ucraina de Est”
  • Russian: “Восточная Украина”
  • Serbian: “Источна Украјина”
  • Slovenian: “vzhodna Ukrajina”
  • Spanish: “Región oriental de Ucrania”
  • Spanish: “Ucrania oriental”
  • Swedish: “Östra Ukraina”
  • Turkish: “Doğu Ukrayna”
  • Ukrainian: “Схід України”
  • Ukrainian: “Східна Україна”
  • Venetian: “Ucràina orientałe”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Ukraina”
  • Yue Chinese: “東烏克蘭”

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