Vakhrusheve
Вахрушеве (in Ukrainian)
City
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Vakhrusheve
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Vakhrusheve
Country Ukraine
OblastLuhansk Oblast
Population
 (2021)
 • Total11,457
Area code(+380)
Vehicle registrationBB / 13
ClimateDfb

Vakhrusheve (Ukrainian: Вахрушеве, Russian: Вахрушево), is a city in Krasnyi Luch Municipality, Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Population: 11,457 (2021 est.)[1], 11,878 (2013 est.)[2].

Since 2014, Vakhrusheve has been controlled by the Luhansk People's Republic and not by Ukrainian authorities.[3] In 2016, it was renamed by the Verkhovna Rada to Bokovo-Khrustalne (Ukrainian: Боково-Хрустальне) according to the law prohibiting the names of Communist origin.[4] The name is not being used locally.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[5]

References

  1. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2021 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2021] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. ^ Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Рада переименовала Торез, Красный Луч, Краснодон, Свердловск и Стаханов". Lb.ua (in Russian). 12 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення". Ukrcensus.gov.ua. Retrieved 2022-03-16.

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