Main Information
Date Founded:	1910
City Rights:	1961
Area:	km²
Population:	9,098
Pop. density:	p/km²
Tel. Code:	+(380)

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Romanization of Ukrainian

The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic....

: Artemivs`k) is a city in the Perevalskyi Raion of the eastern Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

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Oblast

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 of Luhansk

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....

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History

The city was founded as Katerynivka village in 1910 close to the railway station of Kypyche (Vigorous). Its name was changed to Artema in 1923 and to Artemivsk in 1938.

Economy

Its major industry is coal mining. Southeast of Artemivsk, there is Donbass-750 an important node in the power grid.