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Novopskov Raion

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Country
  
Ukraine

Admin. center
  
Novopskov

Postal index
  
92300—92355

Founded
  
1931

Area code
  
6463

Established
  
1923

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
1,600 km²

Population
  
35,091 (2013)

Region
  
Luhansk Oblast

Novopskov Raion

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

Novopskov Raion (Ukrainian: Новопсковський район) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Novopskov. Population: 35,054 (2013 est.).

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Map of Novopskovs'kyi district, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

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. Novopskov 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: 92.2%
  • Russians: 6.9%
  • Belarusians: 0.3%
  • References

    Novopskov Raion Wikipedia