Svatovo

a city (since 1938) and administrative center of Svatovo Raion, Voroshilovgrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Located on the Krasnaia River, a tributary of the Severskii Donets. Railroad station on the Kupiansk-Rodakovo line. Population, 23,400 (1975). Svatovo has an automotive-repair shop, factories producing housewares and hoisting and transport equipment, a vegetable-oil extraction plant, and a milk plant. Other enterprises include bread-baking, cereal-products, food-processing, and poultry-breeding combines. Svatovo also has a museum of local lore.