Schastia
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Schastia is a city in 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
Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

) of Ukraine
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...

. Population is 13,770 (2001).
North of Schastia, there is Luhanskaya GRES
Luhanskaya GRES
Luhansk power station is a thermal power station north of Schastia near Luhansk, Ukraine. It was built between 1950 and 1956 and its first generator was connected to the grid on September 30, 1956. In 1957 4 turbines and 7 boilers went in service. In 1958 it was completed.Between 1979...

, Russian:
Луганская ГРЭС ) a large powerplant built in the 1950s. Town Schastia is stand on the river Seversky Donets
Seversky Donets
Seversky Donets is a river on the south of the East European Plain. It originates in the Central Russian Upland, north of Belgorod, flows south-east through Ukraine and then again through Russia to join the Don River, about from the Sea of Azov...

.

History:

1754 - was founded village Schastia

1953 - beginning of building VEPS (Voroshilovgrad Electric Power station) or Luhansk Thermal Electric Station.

1963 - Schastia becomes town.

Links:

Map of the town.
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