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Dovzhansk Raion Довжанський район
Raion
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Luhansk Oblast
Established	2020
Admin. center	Dovzhansk (Sverdlovsk)
Subdivisions	2 hromadas
Area
• Total	2,139 km (826 sq mi)
Population
• Total	205,465
• Density	96/km (250/sq mi)

Sverdlovskyi Raion Свердловський район
Raion
Coordinates: 47°56′24″N 39°38′33″E / 47.94000°N 39.64250°E / 47.94000; 39.64250
Country	Ukraine
Region	Luhansk Oblast
Established	1938
Admin. center	Sverdlovsk
Subdivisions	List   0 — city councils   1 — settlement councils 6 — rural councils Number of localities:   0 — cities   1 — urban-type settlements 26 — villages   3 — rural settlements
Area
• Total	1,132 km (437 sq mi)
Population
• Total	11,644
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	94820—94871
Area code	+380 6434

Dovzhansk Raion (Ukrainian: Довжанський район; Russian: Должанский район) or Sverdlovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Свердловський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk, Population: 205,465 (2022 estimate). which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. The last estimates of the population of the raion, reported by the Ukrainian government, were 11,644 (2020 est.); 12,039 (2013 est.).

The area of the raion is controlled by Russia, which continues to use the pre-2020 administrative divisions of Ukraine.

History

Sverdlovsk Raion was created in 1938, soon after the founding of Sverdlovsk itself by the amalgamation of several local mining villages. In 1962, Sverdlovsk was designated as a city of oblast significance; while it still served as the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Raion, it was no longer part of it, and was instead subordinated directly to Luhansk Oblast. Portions of the raion were also split off and transferred to Krasnodon Raion and Antratsyt Raion.

Territories of Luhansk Oblast have been the subject of fighting by Russian and Russian-controlled militias since 2014. In 2015 a more-or-less stable line of contact was established after the Minsk II ceasefire agreement and conclusion of the battle of Debaltseve, placing the raion on the Russian side (as part of the Luhansk People's Republic), and then directly after the 2022 annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts.

In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk to Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion to Dovzhansk Raion, in accordance with the decommunization 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 was abolished and reformed as a new Dovzhansk Raion, with its territory significantly extended. Russia continues to use the old name and the old area of the raion.

Population

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:

Ethnicity

• Ukrainians: 69.9%
• Russians: 25.9%
• Belarusians: 0.6%

Subdivisions

The raion contains two hromadas:

• Dovzhansk urban hromada, with its center in the city Sverdlovsk (Dovzhansk)
• Sorokyne urban hromada, with its center in the city Krasnodon (Sorokyne)

References

1. Ostapenko, Pavlo (Павло Остапенко), ed. (2020). Атлас адміністративно-територіального устрою України: Новий районний поділ та територіальні громади: 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian) (2nd ed.). Київ: Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України; Товариство дослідників України.
2. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
3. Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.. Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
4. Нові райони: карти + склад. Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
5. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
6. Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
7. "Свердловськ, Свердловський район, Луганська область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-07.
8. "Свердловськ, Свердловський район, Луганська область (продовження)". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-16.
9. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
10. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
11. "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.

48°28′N 38°34′E / 48.467°N 38.567°E / 48.467; 38.567

• Raions of Luhansk Oblast
• Ukrainian raions established during the 2020 administrative reform
• Dovzhansk Raion