Sverdlovsk Raion () is 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 ...

in 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 administrative center of the raion is the town of Sverdlovsk, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was , .

History

Since 2014 the raion has not been under the control of the 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 is the city of Sverdlovsk. Sverdlovsk was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015 was merged into the raion. In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion

Dovzhansk Raion Dovzhansk Raion ( uk, Довжанський район, russian: Должанский район) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions ...

, according to the law prohibiting the names of Communist origin. On 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, the raion has been significantly extended. The Luhansk People's Republic continues to use the old name and the old area of the raion.

Population

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: 69.9% * Russians: 25.9% * Belarusians: 0.6%

References

{{Authority control Former raions of Luhansk Oblast Sverdlovsk Raion Soviet toponymy in Ukraine 1938 establishments in Ukraine