Districts | Svatovsky

Svatovsky district was founded in March, 1923. The district is located in the northwest part of Lugansk region, in the valleys of the rivers Krasnaya, Zherebets, Borovaya their inflows and represents wavy plain divided by ravines.

     It has a moderately continental climate. The averrage annual temperature is + 70 С, in the summer the hottest temperature is + 40-450 С, in the winter - 35-390 С. Mid-annual amount of rain is 415 mm. Soil is the usual chernozem, partially washed off by rains.

     The area of the district is 1740 sq. km. The population of the district makes 43 thousand people, including Svatovo where 50 % of the population lives: 14,512 pensioners lives in the district, young people till 28 years make 14,092. In the structure of the district there is one city, one settlement of the city type, and 58 settlements. In Svatovo district there are 17 rural councils.

     Svatovo is the city of regional submission, the centre of the district located on the river Krasnaya, the inflow of Severs'ky Donets, is from 160 km from Lugansk.

     Brief historical information

     In the territory of the city and its surburbs, on the coast of the river Krasnaya and its inflow Horina there are some barrows. The research of burial places testifies that in this territory people lived in the epoch of copper and bronze (the end of the fourth - the beginning of the first millenium BC). From the year 1704 these grounds have started to be occupied by peasants and cossacks of the Left-bank and Right-bank Ukraine, and also Russian military people. By that time there was founded the village of Svatova-Luchka. It has received the name from the nowadays not existing river Svakha.

     In the beginning of the 18th century Svatova-Luchka became the part of Izyumsky regiment. The great bulk of the population made the cossacks. The cossacks of Svatova-Luchka took part in the Azov campaigns of Peter the Great, and in June, 1709 in Izyumsky regiment in the Poltava battle with the Swedes.

     The primary activity of inhabitants was agriculture and cattle breeding. Except that the inhabitants were engaged in wine making and tar crafts, produced carts, wheels, and ploughs. Women weaved canvases. Fairs which were organized 4 times a year promoted the development of the trade. Here came merchants from different cities of Ukraine and Russia. They traded with silk fabrics, Chinese silk, fox and hare fur, and utensils. In 1785 the large village had 2 mills, 15 shops and 12 taverns.

     From the first quarter of the 19th centuries Svatova-Luchka became one of Arakcheyev military settlements. In 1825 in the large village and the neighbouring villages Ekaterinoslavsky regiment of the second Kiraseysk divisions got settled. Svatova-Luchka where the head quaters of the division were located was renamed into Novoekaterinoslavl'. Development Svatova Luchka (to it has received the former name) went on faster in the 60s of the 19th centuries. In 1862 more then 7 thousand people lived in it. On the trading value it occupied one of the first places among large villages of Kupyansk district of Kharkov province.

     To the economic development of the large village assisted the construction in 1895 of the railroad line Kupjans'k-Lisichans'k which has passed through SvatovaLuchka. Here the station Svatovo, which was included in the number of greatest stations of Ekaterininsk the railway, was constructed.

    Nature sanctuaries of the district

- the Pine forest - village Sosnovoye.

- the Hydrological monument of regional value - the water source in village Kovalevka.

- the Geological monument of regional value - Kuzemovs'ky open section of the ravine.

     The basic branch of the district is agriculture: manufacture of grain, commercial crops, meat, milk and processing industry. In the district there are 8 industrial enterprises, 34 agro enterprises, 176 farms, 90 small enterprises, 729 private businesses.

    The industry of the district is submitted by the enterprises of processing agricultural production, metal working, and light industry.