Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion

Stanytchno-Luhanskyi Raion Станично-Луганський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 48°49′3″N 39°31′38″E / 48.81750°N 39.52722°E / 48.81750; 39.52722Coordinates: 48°49′3″N 39°31′38″E / 48.81750°N 39.52722°E / 48.81750; 39.52722
Country	Ukraine
Region	Luhansk Oblast
Established	1923
Admin. center	Stanytsia Luhanska
Subdivisions	List   0 — city councils   2 — settlement councils 16 — rural councils Number of localities:   0 — cities   2 — urban-type settlements 41 — villages   6 — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Yuriy Gladkyh
Area
• Total	1,900 km2 (700 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	49,797
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal index	93600—93655
Area code	+380 6472
Website	http://stn.loga.gov.ua

Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion (Ukrainian: Станично-Луганський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska. Population: 49,797 (2013 est.)^[1].

On July 2, 2014, this town and Mykolaivka were badly hit; nine civilians were killed. The Ukrainian authorities said the bloodshed happened when rebel forces launched rockets from a Grad rocket launcher; the Grad was later seized by government forces. A resident of the Kondrashovka locality (part of this place) said that an aircraft first targeted an insurgent position nearby, but that its second strike hit the village. The deputy commander of a Ukrainian battalion said the place may have been hit both by the aircraft and by shelling from outside.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census:^[2]

Ethnicity

• Russians: 61.1%
• Ukrainians: 36.5%
• Belarusians: 0.6%

Language

• Russian: 85.1%
• Ukrainian: 14.2%
• Armenian: 0.2%
• Belarusian: 0.1%
• Romani: 0.1%

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