Krasnodon Raion (Ukrainian: Краснодонський район; Russian: Краснодо́нский райо́н) or Sorokyne Raion (Ukrainian: Сорокинський район; Russian: Сорокинский район) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine from 1923 to 2020. The administrative center of the raion was Krasnodon, also known as Sorokyne. The last estimate of the raion population before its abolition was 28,943 (2020 est.).[1]
Krasnodonskyi Raion
Краснодонський район | |
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| Coordinates: 48°22′51″N 39°40′36″E / 48.38083°N 39.67667°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Region | Luhansk Oblast |
| Established | 1923 |
| Disestablished | 18 July 2020 |
| 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/ |
History
editIt was originally formed in 1923 as Sorokyne Raion. It was subordinate to Shakhty Okruha of Donets Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[2] On August 12, 1927, it received the status of a national raion for ethnic Russians. At the time, it had a population of 13,216 people, of whom 80.5% were ethnic Russians. In 1930, it was assigned to Luhansk Okruha. From September 1930 to 1932, it was subordinated directly to the republic. In 1932, it was assigned to Donetsk Oblast.[3] By this time, it was still considered a national raion.[4] In June 1938, it was transferred to Voroshylovhrad Oblast (later renamed Luhansk Oblast).[3] At some point, it was renamed Krasnodon Raion.[citation needed]
Since 2014, Krasnodon Raion has been controlled by forces of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).[5][better source needed] 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.[citation needed]
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.[6][7] 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.[citation needed]
Demographics
editAs of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[8]
- Ethnicity
- Russian: 51.7%
- Ukrainian: 45.9%
- Belarusians: 0.9%
- Language
- Russian 68.8%
- Ukrainian 30.0%
- Armenian 0.1%
- Belarusian 0.1%
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b "НАЦІОНАЛЬНЕ АДМІНІСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРИТОРІАЛЬНЕ БУДІВНИЦТВО В УСРР/УРСР 1924–1940". resource.history.org.ua. Archived from the original on 10 December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) – via Wikisource.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
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