Kartushyne

Kartushyne (Ukrainian: Картушине) or Proletarskyi (Ukrainian: Пролетарський; Russian: Пролетарский) is a rural settlement in Rovenky urban hromada, Rovenky Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region), Ukraine.

Population: 1,550 (2022 estimate)[2] Proletarskyi is located in the southern part of Luhansk Oblast, in the historical and economic Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine.

[3] Proletarskyi was founded in 1922 near the "Kartushyne" railway station.

[3] Proletarskyi was taken over by Russian proxy forces during the war in Donbas that began in 2014.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine issued an edict renaming it to Kartushyne in accordance with decommunization laws.