Novoaidar
Новоайдар
Urban-type settlement
Coat of arms of Novoaidar
Coat of arms
Novoaidar is located in Luhansk Oblast
Novoaidar
Novoaidar
Location in Luhansk Oblast
Novoaidar is located in Ukraine
Novoaidar
Novoaidar
Location in Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°58′18″N 39°00′21″E / 48.97167°N 39.00583°E / 48.97167; 39.00583
Country Ukraine
Oblast Luhansk Oblast
RaionShchastia Raion
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total7,773
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Novoaidar (Ukrainian and Russian: Новоайдар) is an urban-type settlement and the de facto administrative center of Shchastia Raion in Luhansk Oblast, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, located east of Sievierodonetsk. It has an estimated population of 7,773 (2022 estimate).[1]

Until July 2020, Novoaidar served as Ukraine's center of Novoaidar Raion of Ukraine.[2] As part of the 2020 reform of the administrative divisions of Ukraine, the number of raions (districts) in Luhansk Oblasts was reduced to six and Shchastia Raion was created.[3][4] Shchastia was the official administrative center of the new raion, but its status is only de jure because the city was too close to territory held by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR / LNR). Novoaidar remained an administrative center, serving as the de facto administrative center of Shchastia Raion of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.

From 2014 in the war in Donbas the settlement remained under Ukrainian government control (unlike many other places in the Luhansk Oblast).[5][6] However, just over a week after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, it was taken by Russian forces, on March 3.[7][8]

Following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the settlement as their territory, and it remains under Russian control.

History

The area around the Aidar was initially settled by Don Cossacks in the late 16th century. In the second half of the 17th century, there was further development of the settlement.[9]

After 2014

During the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, the Ukrainian interior ministry alleged that pro-Russian separatists tried and were stopped from stealing cast ballots, with one person was killed and another injured in the shootout.[10][6]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russian troops in Novoaidar.

On 3 March 2022, just over a week after the invasion began, the Luhansk PR announced that Novoaidar had been captured by Russian forces.

Economy

Transportation

Novoaidar is on Highway H21 which connects Starobilsk and Luhansk.

There is a railway line in Novoaidar, which is currently disconnected from the rest of the railway network in Ukraine. To the south, it extends to Kondrashivska Nova, in Stanytsia Luhanska, and to the north it runs to Starobilsk, crosses the border to Russia, and further runs to Valuyki. In Novoaidar, there are three railway stations: Noviy Aidar, 920 km, and Marsivskyi. There is infrequent passenger traffic between Kondrashivska Nova and Lantrativka.

References

  1. 1 2 Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 4, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). July 18, 2020. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  5. ↑ Zelenskyy in the Conflict Zone: Liberated Regions in 1942 to Occupied in 2018, Hromadske.TV (11 May 2020)
  6. 1 2 Billionaire candy-maker Petro Poroshenko wins Ukraine presidential election, CBS News (25 April 2014)
  7. ↑ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 3". Critical Threats. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  8. ↑ https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=17464@morfVideoAudioFile
  9. ↑ Королев, В. Н. Донские казачьи городки. — Новочеркасск. : Дончак, 2011. — С. 144. — ISBN 978-5-904079-41-3.
  10. ↑ One killed, one wounded in shooting in Novoaidar, Luhansk region, says Interior Ministry, Interfax-Ukraine (25 April 2014)

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