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Administrative region of Ukraine
The Luhansk Oblast is a mainly Russian-occupied oblast in Eastern Ukraine. Part of the oblast was governed as the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) (Russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika), a self-proclaimed state that was governed by pro-Russian separatists until Russia annexed it in 2022.
As the battlefront crosses the oblast, you should choose what side to visit and accordingly enter from Ukraine or Russia. Access to much of the oblast may be restricted.
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Luhansk (Ukrainian: Луганськ) or Lugansk (Russian: Луганск) is the capital of Luhansk Oblast. All information given below dates from before fighting began in 2014.
Alchevsk (Russian: Алчевск; Ukrainian: Алчевськ, Alčevs'k) is a city of 107,000 people (2021) in the Luhansk People's Republic.
Krasnodon (Краснодон) is a city of 43,000 people (2021) in the Luhansk People's Republic. It is a center of the coal mining industry of the Donbass region.
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