Novopskov Raion () was a

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(district) in

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in eastern

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. The administrative center of the raion is the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Novopskov Novopskov ( uk, Новопсков, russian: Новопсков) is an urban-type settlement in the Starobilsk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the Aidar, a left tributary of the Donets, in the basin of the Don. Population: P ...

. 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

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on 27 April 2014 the province Luhansk became a battlefield of the

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.Ukraine crisis timeline

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Novopskov 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: 92.2% * Russians: 6.9% * Belarusians: 0.3%

References

Former raions of Luhansk Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Luhansk-geo-stub