Sverdlovsk Raion

Sverdlovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Свердловський район) was the name of a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine until 2020. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The last estimates of the population of the raion, reported by the Ukrainian government, were 11,644 (2020 est.);[1] 12,039 (2013 est.).[2]

This article is about a subdivision of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. For other similar subdivisions elsewhere, see Sverdlovsky District. For the raion after 2020, see Dovzhansk Raion.
Sverdlovskyi Raion
Свердловський район
Raion
Coordinates: 47°56′24″N 39°38′33″E
Country Ukraine
RegionLuhansk Oblast
Established1938
Admin. centerSverdlovsk
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   1 — settlement councils
  • 6 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   1 — urban-type settlements
  • 26 — villages
  •   3 — rural settlements
Area
 • Total1,132 km2 (437 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 11,644
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
94820—94871
Area code+380 6434

History

Since 2014 the raion has not been under the control of the Ukrainian government and has been part of the Luhansk People's Republic[3] which continues using it as an administrative unit.[4]

The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk. Sverdlovsk was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015 was merged into the raion.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion Dovzhansk Raion, according to the law prohibiting the names of Communist origin. On 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, the raion has been significantly extended.[5][6] The Luhansk People's Republic continues to use the old name and the old area of the raion.

Population

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[7]

Ethnicity
  • Ukrainians: 69.9%
  • Russians: 25.9%
  • Belarusians: 0.6%

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. Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. "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.
  4. "Министерство экономического развития Луганской Народной Республики" (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic.
  5. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  6. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  7. "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.
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