Markivka Raion () was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was an urban-type settlement of Markivka. 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, of which only four were controlled by the government. The last estimate of the raion population was . After the proclamation of the separatist Luhansk People's Republic on 27 April 2014 the province Luhansk became a battlefield of the

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BBC News Markivka Raion stayed under Ukrainian governmental control. The separatist referendum on 11 May on independence was not held in the Raion.

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: 93% * Russians: 5.7% * Belarusians: 0.4%

Notable residents

* Leonid Zhunko (born 1951), politician, born in Krasne Pole village

References

Former raions of Luhansk Oblast 1920 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Luhansk-geo-stub