Country Ukraine | Location Dovzhansky, Sverdlovsk | |
Hours was Open 24 Hours, now closed | ||
Dovzhansky (Ukrainian: Довжанський) is a land border crossing between Ukraine and Russia on the Ukrainian side, in the town of Dovzhansky, Sverdlovsk city municipality, Luhansk Oblast.
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The crossing is situated on autoroute (). Across the border on the Russian side is the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast. The outskirts of Novoshakhtinsk is 10 km from the border crossing and the city center is 20 km.
The type of crossing is automobile, status - international. The types of transportation for automobile crossings are passenger and freight. Trains traveling between Sverdlovsk and Novoshakhtinsk pass through the railway border crossing at Dovzhansky, too.
The port of entry, "Dolzhanskiy", is part of the Dovzhansky customs post of Luhansk customs. Code checkpoint - 70207 02 00 (11)
War in Donbass
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 a leading member of a Russian backed terrorist cell, Valery Bolotov. 150 to 200 armed Russian backed separatists attacked the Dovzhansky checkpoint where he had been held and freed the terrorist.
Closing the crossing
On June 5, 2014, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine closed this border checkpoint and seven others on the Russia-Ukraine border. At that time, separatists in eastern Ukraine had control of the border crossing allowing weapons from Russia to pass without controls. Subsequently, on July 1, 2014, the Ukrainian army regained control of this border point, until 1 August, where daily "Grad" rocket volleys and shelling by pro-Russian forces made the Ukrainian position unatenable.