Novopskov Raion

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]

Novopskovskyi Raion Новопсковський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 49°37′25″N 39°7′39″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Luhansk Oblast
Established	1923
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Novopskov
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
• Governor	Borys Lebedev
Area
• Total	1,623 km2 (627 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	33,173
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	292300 — 292355
Area code	+7 85763
Website	http://novopskov.su

Novopskov Municipal District Новопсковский муниципальный округ
District
Other transcription(s)
• Ukrainian	Новопсковський район
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Location of Novopskovsky District in the Luhansk People's Republic
Coordinates: 49°37′25″N 39°7′39″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Luhansk People's Republic
Established	1923
Administrative center	Novopskov
Area
• Total	1,623 km2 (627 sq mi)
Website	https://novopskov.su

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%