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Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Raion

Luhansk

Luhansk or Lugansk is the capital of Luhansk 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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  • Type: City with 415,000 residents
  • Description: city and administrative center of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Lugansk”
  • Historically known as: “Voroshilovgrad”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Luhansk and Square named after Heroes of the great Patriotic war.

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Luhansk

Latitude
48.5717° or 48° 34′ 18″ north
Longitude
39.2973° or 39° 17′ 50″ east
Population
415,000
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
IATA airport code
VSG
United Nations Location Code
UA VSG
Open location code
8GWXH7CW+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 253874196
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
702658
Wiki­data ID
Q134279
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Luhansk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Loehansk”
  • Albanian: “Luhansk”
  • Albanian: “Luhansku”
  • Arabic: “لوغانسك”
  • Arabic: “لوهانسك”
  • Aragonese: “Lugansk”
  • Armenian: “Լուգանսկ”
  • Asturian: “Lugansk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Luqansk”
  • Bashkir: “Луганск”
  • Basque: “Lugansk”
  • Basque: “Luhansk”
  • Belarusian: “Луганск”
  • Belarusian: “Луганскае”
  • Bengali: “লুহানস্ক”
  • Bulgarian: “Ворошиловград”
  • Bulgarian: “Луганск”
  • Bulgarian: “Луханск”
  • Burmese: “လူဂန်စ်က်”
  • Catalan: “Lugansk”
  • Catalan: “Luhansk”
  • Cebuano: “Luhans’k”
  • Cebuano: “Luhansk”
  • Central Kurdish: “لوھانسک”
  • Chechen: “Луганск”
  • Chinese: “伏罗希洛夫格勒”
  • Chinese: “卢汉斯克”
  • Chinese: “卢甘斯克”
  • Chinese: “盧漢斯克”
  • Chinese: “盧甘斯克”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lugansk”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Luğansk”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Luhansk”
  • Croatian: “Lugansk”
  • Croatian: “Luhansk”
  • Czech: “Lugansk”
  • Czech: “Luhansk”
  • Czech: “Vorošilovgrad”
  • Danish: “Lugansk”
  • Danish: “Lugánsk”
  • Danish: “Luhansk”
  • Dutch: “Loegansk”
  • Dutch: “Loehansk”
  • Dutch: “Luhansk”
  • Dutch: “Vorosjilovgrad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Луганск”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوهانسك”
  • Erzya: “Луганской”
  • Esperanto: “Luhansko”
  • Esperanto: “Voroŝilovgrad”
  • Esperanto: “Voroŝilovurbo”
  • Estonian: “Lugansk”
  • Estonian: “Luhansk”
  • Estonian: “Vorošilovgrad”
  • Finnish: “Lugansk”
  • Finnish: “Luhansk”
  • French: “Lougansk”
  • French: “Louhansk”
  • French: “Lugansk”
  • French: “Luhansk”
  • French: “Vorochilovgrad”
  • Galician: “Lugansk”
  • Galician: “Luhansk”
  • Georgian: “ლუგანსკი”
  • Georgian: “ლუჰანსკი”
  • German: “Lugansk”
  • German: “Luhansk”
  • German: “Woroschylowhrad”
  • German: “Woroschilowgrad” (historical)
  • Greek: “Λουγκάνσκ”
  • Greek: “Λουχάνσκ”
  • Gujarati: “લુહાન્સ્ક”
  • Hebrew: “וורושילובגרד”
  • Hebrew: “לוגנסק”
  • Hebrew: “לוהנסק”
  • Hindi: “लुहान्स्क”
  • Hindi: “लुहांस्क”
  • Hungarian: “Luhanszk”
  • Icelandic: “Lugansk”
  • Icelandic: “Lúhansk”
  • Ido: “Luhansk”
  • Indonesian: “Luhansk”
  • Interlingue: “Luhansk”
  • Irish: “Luhansk”
  • Italian: “Lugansk”
  • Italian: “Luhans’k”
  • Italian: “Luhansk”
  • Italian: “Voroscilovgrad”
  • Italian: “Voroshilovgrad”
  • Italian: “Vorošilovgrad”
  • Japanese: “ルガンスク”
  • Japanese: “ルハーンシク”
  • Japanese: “ルハンシク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Luhansk”
  • Kannada: “ಲುಹ್ಯಾನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Луганск”
  • Kirghiz: “Луганск”
  • Komi: “Луганск”
  • Korean: “루간스크”
  • Korean: “루한스크”
  • Korean: “루한시크”
  • Korean: “보로실로브그라드”
  • Kotava: “Lugansk”
  • Kurdish: “Luhansk”
  • Kurdish: “Lûhansk”
  • Ladin: “Lugansk”
  • Latin: “Pratalia”
  • Latvian: “Luganska”
  • Latvian: “Luhansk”
  • Latvian: “Luhanska”
  • Latvian: “Vorošilovgrada”
  • Limburgan: “Loehansk (sjtad)”
  • Limburgan: “Loehansk”
  • Lithuanian: “Luganskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Luhanskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vorošilovgradas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vorošilovogradas”
  • Lombard: “Luhans’k”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lugansk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Luhansk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Woroschilowgrad”
  • Macedonian: “Луганск”
  • Malagasy: “Lugansk”
  • Malay: “Luhansk”
  • Malayalam: “ലുഹാൻസ്ക്”
  • Manx: “Lugansk”
  • Manx: “Luhansk”
  • Manx: “Luhanske”
  • Manx: “Svyatograd”
  • Manx: “Voroshilovgrad”
  • Manx: “Voroshylovhrad”
  • Marathi: “लुहान्स्क”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუგანსკი”
  • Mingrelian: “ლუჰანსკი”
  • Moksha: “Луганськ”
  • Mongolian: “Луханск”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lugansk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luhansk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lugansk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luhansk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vorosjilovgrad”
  • Norwegian: “Luhansk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Luhansk”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lugansc”
  • Ossetian: “Ворошиловград”
  • Ossetian: “Луганск”
  • Persian: “لوهانسک”
  • Polish: “Ługańsk”
  • Polish: “Łuhańsk”
  • Polish: “Woroszyłowgrad”
  • Pontic: “Λουχάνσκ”
  • Portuguese: “Lugansk”
  • Portuguese: “Luhansk”
  • Romanian: “Lugansk”
  • Romanian: “Luhansk”
  • Russia Buriat: “Луһанск”
  • Russian: “Ворошиловград” (historical)
  • Russian: “Луганск (город)”
  • Russian: “Луганск”
  • Russian: “Луганский завод”
  • Russian: “Луганськ”
  • Russian: “Святоград”
  • Rusyn: “Луганьск”
  • Scots: “Luhansk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Luhansk”
  • Serbian: “Lugansk”
  • Serbian: “Ворошиловград”
  • Serbian: “Луганск”
  • Serbian: “Луганськ”
  • Serbian: “Луханск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lugansk”
  • Sicilian: “Luhansk”
  • Silesian: “Łuhańsk”
  • Silesian: “Łůhańsk”
  • Silesian: “Uůhańsk”
  • Sinhala: “ලුහන්ස්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Lugansk”
  • Slovak: “Luhansk”
  • Slovak: “Vorošilovgrad”
  • Slovenian: “Lugansk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوهانسک”
  • Spanish: “Lugansk”
  • Spanish: “Luhans’k”
  • Spanish: “Luhansk”
  • Spanish: “Voroshilovgrad”
  • Spanish: “Voroshilovgrado”
  • Swahili: “Luhansk”
  • Swedish: “Lugansk”
  • Swedish: “Luhansk”
  • Swedish: “Vorosjilovgrad”
  • Tagalog: “Luhansk”
  • Tajik: “Луганск”
  • Talysh: “Lugansk”
  • Talysh: “Luhansk”
  • Tamil: “இலுகன்சுக் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “இலுகன்சுக்”
  • Tatar: “Луганск”
  • Tatar: “Луһанск”
  • Telugu: “లుహాన్స్క్”
  • Thai: “ลูฮันสก์”
  • Turkish: “Lugansk”
  • Turkish: “Luhansk”
  • Turkish: “Voroşilovgrad”
  • Udmurt: “Луганск”
  • Ukrainian: “Luhansk”
  • Ukrainian: “Ворошиловград” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Луганськ”
  • Ukrainian: “Луганське”
  • Ukrainian: “Луганський завод”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lugansk”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Luhansk”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Worošilowgrad”
  • Urdu: “لوہانسک”
  • Uzbek: “Lugansk”
  • Uzbek: “Luhansk”
  • Veps: “Lugansk”
  • Vietnamese: “Luhansk”
  • Vietnamese: “Voroshilovgrad”
  • Volapük: “Luhansk”
  • Võro: “Luhansk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Luhansk”
  • Welsh: “Luhansk”
  • Western Armenian: “Լուկանսք”
  • Western Frisian: “Lûhansk”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوہانسک”
  • Wu Chinese: “卢甘斯克”
  • Yakut: “Луганскай”
  • Yue Chinese: “盧甘斯克”
  • “Luhansk”

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