Perevalsk
Perevalsk
Coordinates: 48°26′20″N 38°49′10″E / 48.43889°N 38.81944°E
Perevalsk (Ukrainian: Перевальськ) is a city in the southwestern part of the Luhansk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population is 29,665 (2001).
Perevalsk was founded in 1889 as Seleznyovsky Mine. In 1938 it was renamed to Parkommuna, and in 1964 to its present name. In 1964, it became the administrative center of the newly formed Perevalsky district.
Perevalsk borders immediately on the larger town of Alchevsk.
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Categories: Cities in Ukraine | Luhansk Oblast | Luhansk Oblast geography stubs
All text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. (See Terms of Use for details.)
