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To: Monterrosa-24

My memory is that Lugansk is a shipbuilding city, similar to Virginia beach in the US. Correct?

My prayers are with you, your family, and your countrymen.

It is a sad time.

Gwjack


28 posted on 03/03/2014 7:15:55 PM PST by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: gwjack

Luhansk (as it is usually transliterated from Ukranian Cyrillic) is inland and is in coal and steel country. Alchevsk has a huge chemical plant and a huge steel mill which managed to stay in operation all the way through the break-up of the Soviet Union and is still in operation today.

Lugansk is northeast of Donetsk and relatively close to the Russian border. Smaller Alchevsk is a bit to the west of Lugansk.


31 posted on 03/03/2014 7:28:54 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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