Krasnodonskyi Raion
Краснодонський район
Raion
Flag of Krasnodonskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Krasnodonskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 48°22′51″N 39°40′36″E / 48.38083°N 39.67667°E / 48.38083; 39.67667
Country Ukraine
RegionLuhansk Oblast
Established1938
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerKrasnodon
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   5 — settlement councils
  • 10 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   5 — urban-type settlements
  • 47 — villages
  •    — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorOleksandr Kravtsov
Area
 • Total100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 28,943
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
94415—94493
Area code+380 6462
Websitehttp://kd.loga.gov.ua/

Krasnodon Raion (Ukrainian: Краснодонський район) or Sorokyne Raion (Ukrainian: Сорокинський район) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was Krasnodon, also known as Sorokyne. The last estimate of the raion population before its abolition in 2020, reported by the Ukrainian government, was 28,943 (2020 est.).[1]

History

Since 2014, Krasnodon Raion has been controlled by forces of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).[2] Initially, Krasnodon was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015, Ukraine officially merged it into the raion.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Krasnodon Raion to Sorokyne Raion, implementing the law prohibiting names of Communist origin. However, given that Ukraine has not controlled the territory since 2014, the name change has been largely symbolic.

Sorokyne Raion was abolished by Ukraine on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight.[3][4] The LPR continued using the raion - under the name "Krasnodon Raion" - as an administrative unit after that point, and following the 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has done the same.

Demographics

As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[5]

Ethnicity
  • Russian: 51.7%
  • Ukrainian: 45.9%
  • Belarusians: 0.9%
Language

References

  1. ↑ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  2. ↑ "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.


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