{{short description|Urban locality in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine}} {{about|a town of Izvaryne in the city of Krasnodon|a border checkpoint with the same name|Izvaryne (border checkpoint)}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Izvaryne | official_name = | native_name = {{Lang|uk|Ізварине}} | image_skyline = | imagesize = 250px | settlement_type = Rural settlement | image_flag = | image_shield = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{UKR}} | subdivision_type1 = Oblast | subdivision_name1 = Luhansk Oblast | subdivision_type2 = Raion | subdivision_name2 = Dovzhansk Raion | subdivision_type3 = Hromada | subdivision_name3 = Sorokyne urban hromada | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1914 | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Mykhailo Denikin | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 = 7.82 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | population_as_of = 2022 | population_note = | population_total = 1560 | population_footnotes = | population_metro = | population_density_km2 = auto | pushpin_map = Ukraine Luhansk Oblast#Ukraine | pushpin_label_position = left <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Izvaryne | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_label = Izvaryne | coordinates = {{coord|48|17|15|N|39|53|35|E|region:UA|display=it}} | elevation_m = | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 94445 | area_code = +380 6435 | blank_name = | blank_info = | website = http://krasnodon.org.ua/ | footnotes = }} '''Izvaryne''' ({{langx|uk|Ізварине}}; {{langx|ru|Изварино|Izvarino}}) is a rural settlement located on the E40 highway in Sorokyne urban hromada, Dovzhansk Raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. It is also an important road and railway crossing point on the Ukrainian side of the Russia–Ukraine border.<ref name="BCS">{{cite web|url=http://dpsu.gov.ua/en/activities/skipping/skipping_17.htm |title=List of border crossing points |publisher=State Border Guard Service of Ukraine |date=2 July 2014 |accessdate=28 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422022553/http://dpsu.gov.ua/en/activities/skipping/skipping_17.htm |archivedate=22 April 2015 }}</ref> There are facilities at the crossing for motorcars, lorries, and trains.
Izvaryne lies across from the Russian town of Donetsk in Rostov Oblast, not to be confused with the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.<ref name="BCS" /> Population: {{Ua-pop-est2022|1,560}}, {{Ua-pop-est2013|1,692}}.
The settlement came under the control of the Luhansk People's Republic in mid-2014. Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the settlement as part of their LPR / LNR.
==History==
The border post became part of protracted struggle between the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and pro-Russian insurgents affiliated with the Luhansk People's Republic during the rising unrest in Ukraine in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Multiple attacks by the insurgents upon the post were repelled. Despite this, the Border Guard was overwhelmed by insurgents on 20 June 2014, and was forced to retreat into Russian territory, where many guardsmen were captured, and later returned to Ukraine.<ref name="BBCfr">{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27953440 | title=Fighting rages on despite declared truce | work=BBC News | date=21 June 2014 | accessdate=28 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="LN">{{cite news | url=http://news.liga.net/news/politics/2244462-rf_prodolzhaet_uderzhivat_ukrainskikh_pogranichnikov_iz_izvarino.htm | title=Russian continues to hold the Ukrainian border guards from "Izvarino" | work=Liga News | date=21 June 2014 | accessdate=28 July 2014 | language=Russian}}</ref>
By late June 2014, the LPR had announced their complete control of the border post.<ref name="KPLPR">{{cite news | url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/luhansk-peoples-republic-authorities-claim-complete-control-over-izvaryne-border-checkpoint-353402.html | title='Luhansk People's Republic' authorities claim complete control over Izvaryne border checkpoint | work=Kyiv Post | date=25 June 2014 | accessdate=28 July 2014}}</ref> The border point would reportedly be used by insurgents as a vital link to supplies and reinforcements from Russia.<ref name="KPhv">{{cite news | url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraine-advances-after-heavy-fighting-357839.html | title=Ukraine Advances After Heavy Fighting | work=Kyiv Post | date=25 July 2014 | accessdate=28 July 2014}}</ref>
==Demographics== According to the 2001 census, the population of the village was 2,091.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp |title=2001 Census of Ukraine |accessdate=28 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140731182036/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/Mult/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp |archivedate=31 July 2014 }}</ref> 4.16% said that their native language was Ukrainian, whilst 94.88% said that it was Russian.
==References == {{reflist}}
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Category:Rural settlements in Dovzhansk Raion Category:Sorokyne urban hromada