Sievierodonetsk

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Sievierodonetsk
native_name = Сєвєродонецьк
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image_caption = View from an apartment building in Sievierodonetsk


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map_caption = Map of Ukraine with Sievierodonetsk highlighted.
subdivision_type = Country
Oblast
Raion
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Luhansk Oblast
Sievierodonetsk City Municipality
established_title = Founded
established_date = 1932
established_title1 = City status
established_date1 = 1958
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population_as_of = 2004
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population_total = 150000|population_footnotes=
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pushpin_map_caption =Location of Sievierodonetsk
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latd=48 |latm=56 |lats=0 |latNS=N
longd=38 |longm=30 |longs=0 |longEW=E
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area_code = +380 6452
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website = [http://severodonetsk.osp-ua.info/index.php severodonetsk.osp-ua.info]
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Sievierodonetsk ( _uk. Сєвєродонецьк/Сіверодонецьк, translit. "Sievierodonets’k/Siverodonets'k", _ru. Северодонецк, translit. "Severodonetsk") is a city in the Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast, and is located on the Seversky Donets River, approximately 110km(72miles) to the north north west from the oblast capital, Luhansk.

Sieverodonetsk contains many factories and is also an important chemical production center. The city also has an airport.

Vasyl Volha, from Sievierodonetsk, was one of the candidates for the Ukrainian presidential election in 2004.

Demographics

* 1939 - 5,000 inhabitants
* 1959 - 33,200 inhabitants
* 1970 - 90,000 inhabitants
* 1975 - 107,000 inhabitants
* Currently - 150,000 inhabitants

People

* Nikolay Davydenko

External links

* [http://severodonetsk.osp-ua.info/index.php Official website]
* [http://www.sed.lg.ua/ City portal]