The city was occupied by Nazi Germany between 14 July 1942 and 14 February 1943. Located in the Donets Basin, Luhansk developed into an important industrial center of Eastern Europe, particularly as a home to the major locomotive-building company Luhanskteplovoz. In 1882 the factory settlement Luganskiy Zavod was merged with the town of Kamianyi Brid into the city of Luhansk (also Luhanske, according to the Kharkiv orthography). The settlement around the factory was known as Luganskiy Zavod. The city traces its history to 1795 when the British industrialist Charles Gascoigne founded a metal factory near the Zaporizhian Cossacks settlement Kamianyi Brid. History A monument to Charles Gascoigne next to the local museum One of the Mk V tanks used by the Don Army during the Russian Civil War According to folk etymology, the name is also derived to the word 'Luh' (Ukrainian: Луг), which means 'meadow', referring to the floodplains around the river. Luhansk was named after the Luhan River, which flows through the city. ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

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