GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES
As of 2014
TOTAL AREA - 2 668 368 HA
Region composition: The number of settlements - 926
Including: cities – 37, urban-type settlements - 109
rural settlements - 780
Districts – 8: Alchevsk, Dovzhansk, Luhansk, Rovenky, Svatove, Severodonetsk, Starobilsk, Shchastia.
The main motorways: : 643 public roads with a total length of 5,919.3 km, including: 27 roads of national importance with a length of 1,971.3 km and 616 roads of local importance with a length of 3,948 km.
The main railway lines: the deployed length of tracks in Luhansk region was 817.00 km, the operational length was 519.5 km, including 8.7 km of electrified tracks. There were railway stations in Lysychansk, Popasna, Svatove, Rubizhne.
MINERAL RESOURCES:
Coal, gas, condensate, oil, sand, clay and chalk. There are 54 coal deposits in the region, 8 coal mines are on action.
WATER RESOURCES:
52 deposits of drinking groundwaters and 4 mineral ones. Siversky Donets river – it is large river, its length is 233,9 km and it has 50 small rivers of the total length of 1150,60 km. Besides there are 50 streams of the total length 183,3 km.
NATURAL RESERVED FUND:
It includes 204 territories and objects of the natural reserved fund of the total area 94,12 hectares.
After 2014, there were 140 territories and objects of national and local significance with a total area of 75,781 thousand hectares.
FORESTRY:
After 2014, there were 8 state forestry enterprises of the Luhansk Regional Administration operating on the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government, covering 238.12 thousand hectares. In 2020, forests were restored on an area of 887 hectares, of which 775 hectares were planted with forest crops, including 341 hectares of afforestation and 112 hectares of natural regeneration.
Coal and chalk reserves
Large industrial cities with developed production infrastructure
Scientific, technical and production potential in the coal, transport, chemical and petrochemical industries
Large competitive enterprises
Agricultural lands
Interegional and international relations
Recreational resources and tourism development
As of 2014:
Categories of land owned (as of 01.01.2016):
AS OF 01.01.2022
DEVELOPED AND APPROVED:
AT THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT:
STRATEGIC GOALS OF THE COMMUNITY FOR 2021-2027
Economic growth of the region: competitiveness, smart specialisation, favourable business environment
Restoring the region's critical infrastructure
Effective human-centred management
Security, national identity and integral information space
As of 01.01.2022
EDUCATION590
CULTURE649
SPORT1535
MEDICINE57
IMPLEMENTING OF STRATEGIC PROJECTS
DIRECTIONS OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Development of innovative sectors of the economy based on smart specialisation
Support for the development of science and innovation, and the introduction of scientific developments in all sectors of the economy
Providing financial and credit support and private investment to support small and medium-sized enterprises
Claiming reparations for all types of material damage suffered by the state, enterprises of all forms of ownership, NGOs, entrepreneurs and citizens. Adaptation of financial and economic mechanisms for receiving reparations payments
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Realising of the chemical production:2018 – 3234,4 million UAH2019 – 3388,0 million UAH2020 –4549,5 million UAH
MANUFACTURE OF WOOD PRODUCTS, PAPER PRODUCTION AND PRINTING
Sales of products:2018 – 4661,5 million UAH2019 – 3420,3 million UAH2020 – 3079,1 million UAH
METALLURGY
Sales of metallurgical products:2018 – 86,3 million UAH2019 – 169,2 million UAH2020 – 235,4 million UAH
MACHINE BUILDING INDUSTRY
Sales of products:2018 – 3479,6 million UAH2019 – 2935,8 million UAH2020 – 1746,1 million UAH
TEXTILE PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION OF CLOTHING, LEATHER, LEATHER GOODS AND OTHER MATERIALS
Sales of the industry's products:2018 – 108,4 million UAH2019-2020 – data is not made public