Luhyny Raion ( uk, Лугинський район) was a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

(district) of

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

in northern

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. Its administrative centre was located at

Luhyny Luhyny ( uk, Лугини, russian: Луги́ны, pl, Łuhyny) is an urban-type settlement in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Luhyny Raion. Population: In 2001, populatio ...

. The raion covered an area of . The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast to four. The area of Luhyny Raion was merged into

Korosten Raion Korosten Raion ( uk, Коростенський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Korosten. The raion covers an area of . It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. P ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was

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Former raions of Zhytomyr Oblast Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zhytomyr-geo-stub

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