Dovzhansk Raion
Dovzhansk Raion
Довжанський район | |
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| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast |  Luhansk Oblast |
| Established | 2020 |
| Admin. center | Dovzhansk (Sverdlovsk) |
| Subdivisions | 2 hromadas |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,139 km2 (826 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | |
| • Total | 205,465 |
| • Density | 96/km2 (250/sq mi) |
Sverdlovskyi Raion
Свердловський район | |
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| Coordinates: 47°56′24″N 39°38′33″E / 47.94000°N 39.64250°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Region | Luhansk Oblast |
| Established | 1938 |
| Admin. center | Sverdlovsk |
| Subdivisions | List
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| Area | |
| • Total | 1,132 km2 (437 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total |  11,644 |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 94820—94871 |
| Area code | +380 6434 |
Dovzhansk Raion (Ukrainian: Довжанський район; Russian: Должанский район) or Sverdlovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Свердловський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk,[3][4] Population: 205,465 (2022 estimate).[2] 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.);[5] 12,039 (2013 est.).[6]
The area of the raion is controlled by Russia, which continues to use the pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Sverdlovsk Raion was created in 1938, soon after the founding of Sverdlovsk itself by the amalgamation of several local mining villages.[7] In 1962, Sverdlovsk was designated as a city of oblast significance; while it still served as the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Raion, it was no longer part of it, and was instead subordinated directly to Luhansk Oblast. Portions of the raion were also split off and transferred to Krasnodon Raion and Antratsyt Raion.[8]
Territories of Luhansk Oblast have been the subject of fighting by Russian and Russian-controlled militias since 2014. In 2015 a more-or-less stable line of contact was established after the Minsk II ceasefire agreement and conclusion of the battle of Debaltseve, placing the raion on the Russian side (as part of the Luhansk People's Republic), and then directly after the 2022 annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts.
In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk to Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion to Dovzhansk Raion, in accordance with the decommunization law, prohibiting the names of Communist origin.[citation needed] 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 was abolished and reformed as a new Dovzhansk Raion, with its territory significantly extended.[9][10] Russia continues to use the old name and the old area of the raion.[citation needed]
Population
[edit]Demographics
[edit]As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[11]
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 69.9%
- Russians: 25.9%
- Belarusians: 0.6%
Subdivisions
[edit]The raion contains two hromadas:
- Dovzhansk urban hromada, with its center in the city Sverdlovsk (Dovzhansk)
- Sorokyne urban hromada, with its center in the city Krasnodon (Sorokyne)
References
[edit]- ^ Ostapenko, Pavlo (Павло Остапенко), ed. (2020). Атлас адміністративно-територіального устрою України: Новий районний поділ та територіальні громади: 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian) (2nd ed.). Київ: Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України; Товариство дослідників України.
- ^ a b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
- ^ Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.. Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ Нові райони: карти + склад. Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Свердловськ, Свердловський район, Луганська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ^ "Свердловськ, Свердловський район, Луганська область (продовження)". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.