Krasnodon Raion

Krasnodonskyi Raion
Krasnodonskyi Raion ; Краснодонський район
	Raion
	Flag Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 48°22′51″N 39°40′36″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Luhansk Oblast
Established	1938
Admin. center	Krasnodon
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
• 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/

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] .

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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[ua2020estimate-1] "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.

[2] "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.