Lutuhyne Raion () 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) in

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...

of Eastern

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 ...

. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight. However, since 2014 the raion was not under control of Ukrainian government and has been part of the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика, Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika, ; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, rus, ЛНР) is a disputed entity created by Russian-backed ...

which continues using it as an administrative unit. The administrative center of the raion was the city of

Lutuhyne Lutuhyne (, ) is a city in Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Lutuhyne Raion prior to its abolition in 2020. Population: , . Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured se ...

. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was

Demographics

As of the

2001 Ukrainian census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

: ;Ethnicity * Ukrainians: 71% * Russians: 26.7% * Belarusians: 0.7%

Localities

Illiriia Illiriia ( uk, Іллірія) is a village in the Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in southeastern Ukraine. The population of Illiriia is 646 people. It has since 2014 been administered as a part of the ''de facto'' Luhansk People's Republic ...

References

Former raions of Luhansk Oblast 1965 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Luhansk-geo-stub