Rovenky
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Rovenky (Ukrainian: Ровеньки, translit. Roven’ky, Ukrainian: Ровеньки, translit. Rovenki) is a coal mining city in Luhansk Oblast (province) of south-eastern Ukraine. The city is designated as its own separate raion (district) within the oblast.
The current estimated population is around 58,500 (as of 1991).
[edit] History
Rovenky was founded in 1705, and was incorporated as a city in 1934. During the Great Patriotic War, Rovenky was occupied by Nazi Germany. A group of the underground anti-fascist Komsomol (Communist youth) organization Young Guard operated there.
[edit] Attractions
There is a Pamyati pogibshikh museum in the city (In Memory of Dead in English), which is a branch of the Krasnodon-based memorial complex Young Guard. There is also the Common Grave of five members of the Young Guard and a monument, erected in 1965 on the place where they were shot by the Nazis in 1943.
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