Luhansk
Luhansk, also known as Lugansk, is a city in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.
As of 2022, the population was estimated to be 397,677, making Luhansk the 12th-largest city in Ukraine.
Getting to Luhansk
After airports in Luhansk and Donetsk were destroyed, the nearest airport in operation is in Volgograd, from where numerous informal buses and marshrutkas to Luhansk exist.
- 01Luhansk
- 02Republican
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Things to do
30-letiia VLKSM, All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League public garden (Сквер "30-летия ВЛКСМ"Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи), Kotel'nikova str.. Ukrainian Academic Music and Drama Theater (Український академічний музично-драматичний театр), Oboronnaya str., 11,.
Where to eat
McDonald's (Ресторан "Макдональдз"), Molodezhnyi block, 20A,. Fast Food, Wi-Fi
Getting around Luhansk the local way
- Get inAfter airports in Luhansk and Donetsk were destroyed, the nearest airport in operation is in Volgograd, from where numerous informal buses and marshrutkas to Luhansk exist.
- Get inMinibus 307 will take you from railway station to the center of Donetsk(RF) - every 30 min from 06:30 to 18:30, and then minibus 1 to the border.
- Get inOn the Luhansk side from Izvarino there are minibuses to Krasnodon and Luhansk until 18:00.
- Get aroundthe old "access to the plants" route through old center: Railroad station - Karl Marx street/Oktyabrskaya street (only west-bound buses and marshrutkas) - Shevchenko/Frunze street (east-bound buses and marshrutkas; trams in both directions) - main entrance to Zavod OR and Vergunka-bound marshrutkas - New town of Zavod OR.
- Go nextOtherwise connection is via local bus and minibus network.
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