Lysychansk

Lysychansk is a city in Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine, on the high right bank of the Donets River facing its twin city Sievierodonetsk across the water. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine its population was about 93,340, making it the fortieth largest city in Ukraine. It is popularly believed to have been settled permanently from 1710 as the Cossack settlement of Lisya Balka, and the first coal and the first mine of the Donbas were found and opened here. It became a regional mining centre and later known for glass and an oil refinery, and was fought over in the war in the Donbas and in the Battle of Lysychansk in 2022.