Starobelsk
Starobel’sk
a city and administrative center of Starobel’sk Raion, Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Located on the Aidar River (a tributary of the Severskii Donets), it has a railroad station on the Valuiki-Voroshilovgrad line. Population, 22,700 (1975). Starobel’sk has a repair plant, a reinforced-con-crete products plant, fruit-canning and milk plants, a brewery, and furniture and garment factories. There are also enterprises for servicing railroad transport. The city has a sovkhoz technicum, a medical school, and a museum of local lore. [24—1271–4]