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Re: Jewish Records for Luhansk

Posted: 30 May 2013 8:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 30 May 2013 11:06AM GMT

Town Lugansk (formerly 1935-1958 Voroshilovgrad) > Yekaterinoslav (Khatarineslaw* is variant transliterational spelling, but technically is one and the same as Yekaterinoslav) gubernia/region > Czarist Russia

*region named after Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, the most renowned and longest-ruling female of Russia.

Wikipedia excerpt:
The city traces its history to 1795, when the British industrialist Charles Gascoigne founded a metal factory there. It was the beginning of an industry that still thrives there today. Luhansk achieved the status of city in 1882. Located in the Donets Basin, Luhansk was developed into an important industrial center of Eastern Europe, particularly a home to the major locomotive-building company, Luhanskteplovoz. On November 5, 1935, the city was renamed Voroshilovgrad (Russian and Ukrainian: Ворошиловград) in honour of Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov. On March 5, 1958, with the call of Khrushchev not to give names of living people to cities, the old name was reinstated. On January 5, 1970, after Voroshilov died, the name was changed again to Voroshilovgrad. Finally, on May 4, 1990, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city back its original name.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_000...
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Today Luhansk is regional seat > Luhanska oblast/region > Ukraine.
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