Popasna Raion

Popasna Raion (Ukrainian: Попаснянський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center is the town of Popasna. Population: 40,696 (2013 est.)[1].

Popasnyanskyi Raion

Попаснянський район
Raion
Flag
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 48°41′43″N 38°25′6″E
Country Ukraine
RegionLuhansk Oblast
Established1977
Admin. centerPopasna
Subdivisions
Government
 • GovernorStanislav Fironov
Area
 • Total1,325 km2 (512 sq mi)
Population
 (2013)
 • Total 40,696
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
93300—93354
Area code+380 6474
Websitehttp://pps.loga.gov.ua

During the War in Donbass the Ukrainian authorities lost control over parts of the raion to the Luhansk People's Republic.[2][3]

On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of Luhansk Oblast, the Verkhovna Rada made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, the urban-type settlement of Chornukhyne was transferred to Popasna Raion from Perevalsk Raion, the urban-type settlement of Novotoshkivske from Kirovsk Municipality, and the towns of Hirske and Zolote and the urban-type settlements of Nyzhnie and Toshkivka from Pervomaisk Municipality.[4]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[5]

Ethnicity
  • Ukrainians: 81.1%
  • Russians: 17.5%
  • Belarusians: 0.5%
gollark: I do wish the internetworking companies would just use some sort of scheme of limited bandwidth with some allowance for short peaks instead of data caps, which would match closer to what the actual constraints are.
gollark: Though over here they're mostly just used on mobile phone connections, not home ones.
gollark: Data caps do kind of work well at getting people to use less *bandwidth* because people don't use their internet connection as much, but they don't actually have some finite amount of internets or something weird like that.
gollark: Though you do need sensible small parties in the first place.
gollark: Probably less so, if you can vote for a popular party you like less and a less popular one you like more. It reduces the "I don't like either big party but I'm voting for the least bad one" thing.

References
  1. Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. Head of Zolote in Donbas: Gray zone shrinks with liberated village, UNIAN (2 July 2018)
  3. "Без крыши над головой: как помогают, оставшимся без дома жителям Луганщины". tribun.com.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  4. "Рада изменила границы районов Луганской области" (in Russian). Lenta.ru. 7 October 2014. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.