Novopskov Raion

Novopskovskyi Raion
Новопсковський район
Raion
Flag of Novopskovskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Novopskovskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 49°37′25″N 39°7′39″E / 49.62361°N 39.12750°E / 49.62361; 39.12750
Country Ukraine
RegionLuhansk Oblast
Established1923
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerNovopskov
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   2 — settlement councils
  • 15 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   2 — urban-type settlements
  • 36 — villages
  •   1 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorBorys Lebedev
Area
 • Total1,623 km2 (627 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 33,173
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
292300 — 292355
Area code+7 85763
Websitehttp://novopskov.su

Novopskov Raion (Ukrainian: Новопсковський район) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Novopskov. 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.[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 33,173 (2020 est.).[3]

After the proclamation of the separatist Luhansk People's Republic on 27 April 2014 the province Luhansk became a battlefield of the War in Donbass.[4] Novopskov Raion stayed under Ukrainian governmental control.[5] The separatist referendum on 11 May on independence was not held in the raion.[6]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[7]

Ethnicity
  • Ukrainians: 92.2%
  • Russians: 6.9%
  • Belarusians: 0.3%

References

  1. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
  5. ^ http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-army-debaltseve-and-mariupol-areas-key-target-of-militants-strikes-380383.html Ukrainian army: Debaltseve and Mariupol areas key target of militants' strikes], Kyiv Post (15 February 2014)
  6. ^ Any violations allowed in Luhansk Oblast referendum, Kyiv Post (11 May 2014)
  7. ^ "Home". ukrcensus.gov.ua.