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Gorlovka

American  
[gawr-lawf-kuh, -lof-, gawr-luhf-kuh] / gɔrˈlɔf kə, -ˈlɒf-, ˈgɔr ləf kə /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Horlivka.


Gorlovka British  
/ ˈɡɔrləfkə /

noun

  1. a city in SE Ukraine in the centre of the Donets Basin: a major coal-mining centre. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)

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Mr Sargsyan was born in Gorlovka, a town in Ukraine's Donetsk region which has been occupied by Russia since 2014.

From BBC

Working as a supermarket cashier in Gorlovka, she earned about £60 a month; doing the same job in Magadan she earns £300.

From The Guardian

Alexander Burlakov, 37, Tatyana Spivak, 38, and their son Sergei, 12, left their home in rebel-held Gorlovka last August, and flew to Magadan, leaving their parents behind.

From The Guardian

In the days after the crash, the Ukrainian security service released what it said were phone taps that implicated a number of separatist leaders, including Igor “the Demon” Bezler, who ran the town of Gorlovka at the time but has now left the region.

From The Guardian

He spent three months last summer as a prisoner of Bezler in Gorlovka.

From The Guardian