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Bilokurakyne Raion

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Country
  
Admin. center
  
Bilokurakyne

Postal index
  
92200—92253

Founded
  
1923

Area code
  
6462

Established
  
1923

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
1,436 km²

Population
  
19,637 (2013)

Region
  
Bilokurakyne Raion

Subdivisions
  
List  0 — city councils  2 — settlement councils13 — rural councilsNumber of localities:  0 — cities  2 — urban-type settlements49 — villages  1 — rural settlements

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.).

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Map of Bilokurakyns'kyi district, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

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. Bilokurakyne Raion stayed under Ukrainian governmental control. The separatist referendum on 11 May on independence was not held in the Raion.

Demographics

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:

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

    Bilokurakyne Raion Wikipedia


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