The closest railway station is in Starobilsk, on a railway line 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 crosses the border to Russia, and further runs to Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast.[citation needed]
Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the town had a population of 9,952. The linguistic composition was as follows:[2]