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Kurakhove

Kurakhove
Курахове
City
Kurakhove Reservoir and power station
Kurakhove Reservoir and power station
Flag of Kurakhove
Flag
Official seal of Kurakhove
Seal
Country Ukraine
Oblast Donetsk
Population (2013)
 • Total 20,098

Kurakhove (Ukrainian: Курахове, Russian: Курахово) is a city in Marinka Raion of Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population: 20,098 (2013 est.); 21,479 (2001). At Kurakhove, there is Kurakhove Power Station.

In Kurakhove the 11 May 2014 Donetsk Oblast independence referendum was conducted; but the city did not became part of the territory controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic (who held the referendum). Since then the city is 10 miles west of the frontlines of the War in Donbass.

City council

Church in Kurakhove

Sports centre

Lermontov Street in Kurakhove

Kurakhove Reservoir

Coordinates: 47°59′N 37°16′E / 47.983°N 37.267°E / 47.983; 37.267


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