Luchegorsk

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Electric power station in Luchegorsk
Electric power station in Luchegorsk

Coordinates: 46°27′N 134°17′E / 46.45, 134.283

Luchegorsk (Russian: Лучего́рск, lit. ray of mountains) is an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Pozharsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. It was founded in 1966 on a bank of Kontrovod River.

Population: 22,365 (2002 Census); 21,825 (1989 Census).

Luchegorsk is the largest settlement in the Far Eastern Federal District without a town status.

There is a large electric power station which causes ecological problems in Luchegorsk.