Luhansk Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city and administrative centre of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
About Luhansk
In 1790, Scottish engineer Charles Gascoigne explored the coal and mineral resources in the "region of SlavyanoSerbia" (the name itself originates from local Serb settlements). By 1795 it was found that natural resources were plentiful, and Russian Empress Ekaterina the Second ordered the creation of a metal factory on the Luhan' river near existing village of Kamyanyi Brid. This started the development of a new major industrial region of Tsarist Russia, and eventually Soviet Ukraine, which steadily thrived consistently up until the decay of Soviet Union in 1991. After the fall of the USSR, the regional coal mining and other industries slowly became unprofitable. Having over 100 industrial plants, Luhansk faced several years, of slowed or stopped production (with a notable exception of alc
Top Attractions in Luhansk
Explore the best things to see and do in Luhansk:
- ★30-letiia VLKSM, All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League public garden
- ★Art Gallery
- ★Boyan- Author Slova o Polku Igorevi, Monument Lay
- ★Cenotaph Cranes (Zhuravli)
- ★Church of the Holy Martyrs Guria, Samon and Aviv
- ★Defender of Cities from Denikin's Bands in 1919
- ★Dzerzhinskiy Monument
- ★Former Hotel Oktiabr'. Now renamed as "Ukraine"
Where to Eat in Luhansk
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴McDonald's
Where to Stay in Luhansk
- 🏨Arena Hotel
- 🏨Azimut
- 🏨Druzhba Hotel
- 🏨Egoist
- 🏨Elit-Komfort Hotel
- 🏨Evropa
Luhansk Travel Guide Sections
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