Sievierodonetsk Airport
airport in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
Sievierodonetsk Airport is a closed airport in the city of Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. It is relatively small and has one concrete runway which is 1,420 meters in length.
It became the primary airport serving the oblast after Luhansk International Airport was destroyed during the war in the Donbas in 2014. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the airport was severely damaged in the Battle of Sievierodonetsk, rendering it unusable.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sievierodonetsk Airport” as airport in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4412570. Authority coordinates are 48.897, 38.542. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sievierodonetsk Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.