Sloviansk Raion () was a raion of
Donetsk Oblast
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, located in southeastern
Ukraine
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. The administrative center of the district was the city of
Sloviansk, which was separately incorporated as a
city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, of which only five were controlled by the government. The last estimate of the raion population was
Demographics
According to the
2001 Ukrainian Census:
2014 fighting
On 2 May 2014, armed clashes were reported in and around Sloviansk with reported casualties, including killed and wounded, and downed helicopters.
References
Former raions of Donetsk Oblast
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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