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.
- Type: City with 415,000 residents
- Description: city and administrative center of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Lougansk”, “Lugansk”, “Luganska”, “Łuhanśk”, “Łůhańsk”, “Luhanske”, “Svyatograd”, “Uůhańsk”, “Vorochilovgrad”, “Voroscilovgrad”, “Voroshilovgrado”, “Voroshylovhrad”, “Voroŝilovgrad”, “Vorošilovgrad”, “Voroşilovgrad”, “Vorošilovgrada”, “Vorošilovgradas”, “Vorošilovogradas”, “Voroŝilovurbo”, “Vorosjilovgrad”, “Woroschylowhrad”, “Worošilowgrad”, “Woroszyłowgrad”, “Луганск (город)”, “Луганскае”, “Луганский завод”, “Луганське”, “Луганський завод”, “Святоград”, “וורושילובגרד”, “לוגנסק”, “보로실로브그라드”, “ルガンスク”, “ルハンシク”, “伏罗希洛夫格勒”, and “卢汉斯克”
- Historically known as: “Voroshilovgrad”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Luhansk and Square named after Heroes of the great Patriotic war.
Square named after Heroes of the great Patriotic war
Park
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)
Established
1756
IATA airport code
VSG
UN/LOCODE
UA VSG
Open location code
8GWXH7CW+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- Bengali: “লুহানস্ক”
- Breton: “Louhansk”
- Bulgarian: “Луганск”
- Burmese: “လူဂန်စ်က်”
- Catalan: “Luhansk”
- Cebuano: “Luhans’k”
- Cebuano: “Luhansk”
- Central Kurdish: “لوھانسک”
- Chechen: “Луганск”
- Chinese: “卢甘斯克”
- Chinese: “盧漢斯克”
- Chinese: “盧甘斯克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Lugansk”
- Crimean Tatar: “Luğansk”
- Croatian: “Lugansk”
- Croatian: “Luhansk”
- Czech: “Luhansk”
- Danish: “Lugánsk”
- Danish: “Luhansk”
- Dutch: “Loehansk”
- Eastern Mari: “Луганск”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوهانسك”
- Erzya: “Луганской”
- Esperanto: “Luhansko”
- Estonian: “Lugansk”
- Estonian: “Luhansk”
- Finnish: “Luhansk”
- French: “Louhansk”
- Galician: “Luhansk”
- Georgian: “ლუგანსკი”
- Georgian: “ლუჰანსკი”
- German: “Luhansk”
- German: “Woroschilowgrad” (historical)
- Greek: “Λουγκάνσκ”
- Greek: “Λουχάνσκ”
- Gujarati: “લુહાન્સ્ક”
- Hebrew: “לוהנסק”
- Hindi: “लुहान्स्क”
- Hindi: “लुहांस्क”
- Hungarian: “Luhanszk”
- Icelandic: “Lugansk”
- Icelandic: “Lúhansk”
- Ido: “Luhansk”
- Indonesian: “Luhansk”
- Interlingue: “Luhansk”
- Irish: “Luhansk”
- Italian: “Luhans’k”
- Japanese: “ルハーンシク”
- Kalaallisut: “Luhansk”
- Kannada: “ಲುಗಾನ್ಸ್ಖ”
- Kannada: “ಲುಹ್ಯಾನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Луганск”
- Kirghiz: “Луганск”
- Komi: “Луганск”
- Korean: “루간스크”
- Korean: “루한스크”
- Korean: “루한시크”
- Kotava: “Lugansk”
- Kurdish: “Luhansk”
- Kurdish: “Lûhansk”
- Ladin: “Lugansk”
- Latin: “Pratalia”
- Latvian: “Luhanska”
- Limburgan: “Loehansk (sjtad)”
- Limburgan: “Loehansk”
- Lithuanian: “Luganskas”
- Lithuanian: “Luhanskas”
- Lombard: “Luhans’k”
- Luxembourgish: “Lugansk”
- Macedonian: “Луганск”
- Malagasy: “Lugansk”
- Malay: “Luhansk”
- Malayalam: “ലുഹാൻസ്ക്”
- Manx: “Luhansk”
- Marathi: “लुहान्स्क”
- Mingrelian: “ლუჰანსკი”
- Moksha: “Луганськ”
- Mongolian: “Луханск”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luhansk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Luhansk”
- Norwegian: “Luhansk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Luhansk”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lugansc”
- Ossetian: “Луганск”
- Persian: “لوهانسک”
- Polish: “Ługańsk”
- Pontic: “Λουχάνσκ”
- Portuguese: “Lugansk”
- Portuguese: “Luhansk”
- Romanian: “Lugansk”
- Romanian: “Luhansk”
- Russia Buriat: “Луһанск”
- Russian: “Ворошиловград” (historical)
- Russian: “Луганск”
- Rusyn: “Луганьск”
- Scots: “Luhansk”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Luhansk”
- Serbian: “Lugansk”
- Serbian: “Луганск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lugansk”
- Sicilian: “Luhansk”
- Silesian: “Łuhańsk”
- Sinhala: “ලුහන්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Luhansk”
- Slovenian: “Lugansk”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوهانسک”
- Spanish: “Lugansk”
- Spanish: “Luhansk”
- Swahili: “Luhansk”
- Swedish: “Luhansk”
- Tagalog: “Luhansk”
- Tajik: “Луганск”
- Talysh: “Lugansk”
- Talysh: “Luhansk”
- Tamil: “இலுகன்சுக் நகரம்”
- Tamil: “இலுகன்சுக்”
- Tatar: “Луганск”
- Telugu: “లుహాన్స్క్”
- Thai: “ลูฮันสก์”
- Turkish: “Luhansk”
- Udmurt: “Луганск”
- Ukrainian: “Luhansk”
- Ukrainian: “Ворошиловград” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Луганськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Luhansk”
- Urdu: “لوہانسک”
- Uzbek: “Lugansk”
- Uzbek: “Luhansk”
- Veps: “Lugansk”
- Vietnamese: “Luhansk”
- Vlaams: “Loegansk”
- 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”
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Places to explore: 1st Microdistrict and ділянка Цупова.
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