The two-towered station building west of the city centre is a textbook example of the Stalinist-classical railway architecture that the Soviet Union built across the country in the postwar reconstruction. Completed in 1951 to replace a wartime ruin, the station has an arched main hall, a clock tower at one end, and decorative brickwork in cream and ochre.
Lugansk sits on the Kondrashevskaya–Severskaya line, with pre-war connections to Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Rostov-on-Don.