Bilokurakyne Raion

Bilokurakynskyi Raion
Білокуракинський район
Raion
Flag of Bilokurakynskyi Raion
Flag		Coat of arms of Bilokurakynskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 49°37′2″N 38°42′23″E / 49.61722°N 38.70639°E / 49.61722; 38.70639Coordinates: 49°37′2″N 38°42′23″E / 49.61722°N 38.70639°E / 49.61722; 38.70639
Country  Ukraine
Region Luhansk Oblast
Established 1923
Admin. center Bilokurakyne
Subdivisions
Government
 • Governor Oleksandr Didenko
Area
 • Total 1,436 km2 (554 sq mi)
Population (2013)
 • Total Decrease 19,637
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal index 92200—92253
Area code +380 6462
Website http://bk.loga.gov.ua

Bilokurakyne Raion (Ukrainian: Білокуракинський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine Oblast. The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement of Bilokurakyne. Population: 19,637 (2013 est.)[1].

After the proclamation of the separatist Luhansk People's Republic on 27 April 2014 the province of Luhansk became a battlefield of the War in Donbass.[2] Bilokurakyne Raion stayed under Ukrainian governmental control.[3] The separatist referendum on 11 May on independence was not held in the Raion.[4]

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:[5]

Ethnicity
  • Ukrainians: 90.7%
  • Russians: 8.5%
  • Belarusians: 0.2%

References

  1. ↑ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
  3. ↑ Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 4 November 2014, OSCE (5 November 2014)
  4. ↑ Any violations allowed in Luhansk Oblast referendum, Kyiv Post (11 May 2014)
  5. ↑
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