Alchevsk

48°28′N 38°48′E / 48.467°N 38.800°E / 48.467; 38.800

Alchevsk (Ukrainian: Алчевськ) is a city in the Luhansk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine.

Alchevsk is one of the largest industrial centers in the Donbas, and comprises a quarter of the oblast's entire production. The city economy depends on OJSC "Alchevsk Iron & Steel Works" and "Alchevsk Coke-Chemical Plant" companies.

The city was known as Voroshilovsk (Russian: Ворошиловск) from 1931 to 1961, and then Kommunarsk (Russian: Коммунарск) until 1992.




This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.