Dovzhansky (Ukrainian: Довжанський) is a land border crossing between Ukraine and Russia on the Ukrainian side, in the town of Dovzhanske [uk], Sverdlovsk city municipality, Luhansk Oblast.
Trains traveling between Sverdlovsk and Novoshakhtinsk pass through the railway border crossing at Dovzhanske, too.
Code checkpoint - 70207 02 00 (11)[1] On May 14, 2014, one day after the unrecognized declaration of independence by the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Ukrainian border guards at the Dovzhansky border crossing arrested Valery Bolotov.
150 to 200 armed Russian backed separatists attacked the Dovzhansky checkpoint where he had been held and freed him.
Subsequently, on July 1, 2014, the Ukrainian army regained control of this border point,[7][8][9][10] until 1 August, where daily "Grad" rocket volleys and shelling by pro-Russian forces made the Ukrainian position untenable.