Krasnodon Raion
Krasnodon Raion (Ukrainian: Краснодонський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the city of Krasnodon, which is incorporated separately as the city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 28,943 (2020 est.)[1] .
Krasnodonskyi Raion
Краснодонський район | |
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| Coordinates: 48°22′51″N 39°40′36″E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Region | Luhansk Oblast |
| Established | 1938 |
| Admin. center | Krasnodon |
| Subdivisions | List
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| Government | |
| • Governor | Oleksandr Kravtsov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 100 km2 (40 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total |  28,943 |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 94415—94493 |
| Area code | +380 6462 |
| Website | http://kd.loga.gov.ua/ |
Since 2014, the raion has been controlled by forces of the Luhansk People's Republic.[2] In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed it Sorokyne Raion (Ukrainian: Сорокинський район), implementing the law prohibiting names of Communist origin. The name is not recognized locally.
Demographics
As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[3]
- Ethnicity
- Russian: 51.7%
- Ukrainian: 45.9%
- Belarusians: 0.9%
- Language
- Russian 68.8%
- Ukrainian 30.0%
- Armenian 0.1%
- Belarusian 0.1%
References
- "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республ ике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
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