Starobesheve Raion ( uk, Старобешівський район) was one of the raions of

Donetsk Oblast The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mil ...

, located in southeastern Ukraine. 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. However, since 2014 the raion was not under control of Ukrainian government and has been part of the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic ( rus, Донецкая Народная Республика, Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika, dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə; abbreviated as DPR or DNR, rus, ДНР) is a disputed en ...

which continues using it as an administrative unit. 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 ...

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

Demographics

According to the

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

References

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