Luhansk Oblast · Ukraine
Luhansk travel guide
Luhansk is a city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, home to about 418,000 people.
- Best months
- May to September
- Currency
- UAHhryvnia
- Time zone
- Europe/Simferopol
- Language
- Ukrainian
About
About Luhansk
Luhansk (Ukrainian: Луга́нськ), also known as Lugansk (Russian: Луга́нск), is a city in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be 397,677 (2022 estimate), making Luhansk the 12th-largest city in Ukraine.
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.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Luhansk
See
- Saint Ascension Cathedral
- Sviato-Petropavlivs'kyi cathedral
- Sviato-Mykolo-Preobrazhens'kyi Sobor (St.Michael of the Transfiguration cathedral)
- Saint-Vladimir Cathedral
- Sviato-Oleksandro-Nevs'kyi Hram (St. Alexander Nevsky church)
- Church of the Holy Martyrs Guria, Samon and Aviv
- Sviato-Panteleimonivs'kyi temple
- Temple of the Holy Virgin of Tenderness Icon
- The Luhansk Cathedral Mosque
- Luhansk Regional Museum of Art
- Museum of history and culture of city of Luhansk
- Art Gallery
Do
- 30-letiia VLKSM, All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League public garden
- Ukrainian Academic Music and Drama Theater
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Where to stay
Hotels in Luhansk
1 hotel within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hotel "Ukraine" | 0.7 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Luhansk
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Luhansk are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; June is the wettest, with about 56 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Luhansk
Getting around
The once extensive tram and trolleybus networks was closed in 2014, then reopened shortly with only 2 trolleybus routes, 51 and 52, and then finally closed completely in 2022. Wires and rails are slowly being deconstructed in various parts of the town, depots are also closed or redesignated as bus depots. Most of the neat and cosy tram network in the private one-storied sector, is now left only on pictures, or may be recognized by the slightly wider streets.
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Questions
Luhansk: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Luhansk?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Luhansk are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; June is the wettest, with about 56 mm of rain.
What currency is used in Luhansk?
hryvnia (UAH).
Nearby
Destinations near Luhansk
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.