Kartushyne ( uk, Картушине) or Proletarskyi ( uk, Пролетарський; russian: Пролетарский) is a
rural settlement in
Rovenky urban hromada,
Rovenky Raion of
Luhansk Oblast (
region),
Ukraine. Population:
Geography
Proletarskyi is located in the southern part of
Luhansk Oblast, in the historical and economic
Donbas
The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...
region of
Eastern Ukraine. It is located west-northwest of
Rovenky.
History
Proletarskyi was founded in 1922 near the "Kartushyne" railway station. It received urban-type settlement status in 1938.
It was traditionally a coal mining location, but by 2008,
Saul B. Cohen
Saul Bernard Cohen (28 July 1925 – 9 June 2021) was an American human geographer.
Cohen graduated from Harvard University just before the faculty closed its Department of Geography (1947–1951). He was President Emeritus of the Queens College ...
wrote that the coal mines had been exhausted, and that now the workers worked in other nearby mines.
[
Proletarskyi was taken over by Russian proxy forces during the war in Donbas that began in 2014. In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine issued an edict renaming it to ''Kartushyne'' in accordance with decommunization laws.]
References
Rural settlements in Rovenky Raion
Rovenky urban hromada
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