- Krasnodon
Krasnodon (Lang-uk/ru|Краснодон) is a
city in theLuhansk Oblast (province) of south-easternUkraine . Serving as the administrative center of theKrasnodonsky Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located at around coord|48|18|N|39|44|E.The population of Krasnodon in 1972 was 70,400.
History
Krasnodon was established in 1912 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 theDonbass region. By a "Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR", onOctober 28 ,1938 it was renamed "Krasnodon".During the
Great Patriotic War Krasnodon was occupied byNazi Germany fromJuly 20 ,1942 toFebruary 14 ,1943 . In that period, between October 1942 and January 1943, theanti-fascist Komsomol organization Young Guard operated in the city. There are monuments and thememorial complex built to the "Young Guard" in Krasnodon.ee also
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Oleg Koshevoy External links
*ru icon [http://tut.krasnodona.net/ Krasnodon - our city]
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