Krasnyi Luch is a city

City

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 in the Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Oblast ) is the easternmost oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the name Voroshilovgrad Oblast in honor of Kliment Voroshilov....

 (province

Oblast

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) of south-eastern Ukraine

Ukraine

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. The city is designated as its own separate raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

 (district) within the oblast.

The current estimated population is (in 2005) 89,688 (as of 94,875, in 2001).
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History

The town was founded as Krindachyovka at the beginning of the 20th century, and renamed as Krasnyi Luch in 1920. The city became one of the most important coal mining

Coal mining

The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

 centres of the Donets Basin

Donets Basin

Donbas or Donbass , full rarely-used name Donets Basin , is a historical, economic and cultural region of eastern Ukraine. Originally a coal mining area, it has become a heavily industrialised territory suffering from urban decay and industrial pollution.-Geography:Donbas covers three...

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People associated with Krasnyi Luch

On the right is a picture of the Wall of Honor. Such walls were installed in every oblast

Oblast

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 seat throughout the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. With the dissolution of the Soviet state those landmarks were mostly removed, but in some instances were retained as the relics of the past.