Kartushyne

Kartushyne (Ukrainian: Картушине) or Proletarskyi (Ukrainian: Пролетарський; Russian: Пролетарский) is a rural settlement in Rovenky urban hromada, Rovenky Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine. Population: 1,550 (2022 estimate)[2]

For the village of the same name, see Kartushyne (village).
Not to be confused with Proletarske.
Kartushyne
Картушине
Rural settlement
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Seal
Kartushyne
Location of Proletarskyi
Kartushyne
Kartushyne (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°08′00″N 39°15′22″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Luhansk Oblast
RaionRovenky Raion
HromadaRovenky urban hromada
Elevation
[1]
279 m (915 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total1,550
 [2]
Postal code
94779
Area code+380 6433

Geography

Proletarskyi is located in the southern part of Luhansk Oblast, in the historical and economic Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) west-northwest of Rovenky.[3]

History

Proletarskyi was founded in 1922 near the "Kartushyne" railway station. It received urban-type settlement status in 1938.[4]

It was traditionally a coal mining location, but by 2008, Saul B. Cohen wrote that the coal mines had been exhausted, and that now the workers worked in other nearby mines.[3]

Proletarskyi was taken over by Russian proxy forces during the war in Donbas that began in 2014. In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine issued an edict renaming it to Kartushyne in accordance with decommunization laws.[5]

References
  1. "Proletarskyi (Luhansk Oblast, Rovenky Municipality)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  2. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
  3. Cohen, Saul B. (ed.). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World: A to G. p. 3081.
  4. "Пролетарський, Антрацитівський район, Луганська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  5. "Про перейменування окремих населених пунктів та районів на тимчасово окупованих територіях Донецької та Луганської областей".


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