Leninske
Ленінське
Urban-type settlement
Leninske is located in Luhansk Oblast
Leninske
Leninske
Location of Leninske within Luhansk Oblast#Location of Leninske within Ukraine
Leninske is located in Ukraine
Leninske
Leninske
Leninske (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°04′36″N 39°33′40″E / 48.07667°N 39.56111°E / 48.07667; 39.56111
Country Ukraine
Oblast Luhansk Oblast
DistrictDovzhansk Raion
HromadaDovzhansk urban hromada
Founded1900
Elevation
[1]
279 m (915 ft)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total3,298
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
94835
Area code+380 6434

Leninske (Ukrainian: Ленінське; Russian: Ленинское) or Valianivske (Ukrainian: Вальянівське; Russian: Вальяновское) is an urban-type settlement in Dovzhansk Raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. Population: 3,298 (2022 estimate)[2]

History

The area around the town has been inhabited since ancient times, as shown by archeological findings.[3]

Coal was discovered in the region around modern Leninske in 1903, during the time of the late Russian Empire.[3] Construction on the first coal mine began in 1910. Other mines joined it over time, with worker's settlements built around them for the miners to live in permanently.[4] During the Russian Civil War, the mines and settlements changed hands several times, before finally falling into the stable control of the Bolsheviks, who established the communist Soviet Union on much of the former territory of the Russian Empire.[3]

In 1932, the Soviet government renamed one of the mines after Vladimir Lenin.[4] In either 1938 or 1944, the mines and settlements were all united into an urban-type settlement named Leninske.[4][3] During World War II, Leninske was occupied by Nazi Germany from July 1942 to February 1943.[3]

In spring 2014, Leninske was taken over by the Luhansk People's Republic, a militant group backed by Russia.[3] In 2016, in accordance with laws enacted by the Verkhovna Rada during decommunization in Ukraine, Leninske was renamed to Valianivske.[5] On 17 October 2018, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine was unable to access and observe the situation in Valianivske due to unclear circumstances.[6]

On 12 June 2020, the Verkhovna Rada assigned Valianivske to Dovzhansk urban hromada.[7] On 17 July the same year, Valianivske - along with the rest of Dovzhansk urban hromada - was assigned to Dovzhansk Raion.[8]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the population was 4,100 people. Ethnically, most were Russians and Ukrainians.[3] 92.05% of the population natively spoke Russian, 7.16% were native speakers of Ukrainian, and 0.26% natively spoke other languages.[9]

Population history
Year 1967 2001 2014 2022
Pop.18,165[3]4,100[3]3,346[3]3,298[2]
±% p.a.—    −4.28%−1.55%−0.18%

References

  1. ↑ "Leninske (Luhansk Oblast)". weather.in.ua. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Радіонов, В. В. (1 February 2016). "Ленінське". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Vol. 17. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ленінське, Свердловський район, Луганська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
  5. ↑ "Сельская декоммунизация: Какие населенные пункты переименовала Рада". 112ua.tv. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 17 October 2018". www.osce.org. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  7. ↑ "Кабінет Міністрів України - Про визначення адміністративних центрів та затвердження територій територіальних громад Луганської області". www.kmu.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів". Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Розподіл населення за рідною мовою на ukrcensus.gov.ua
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