Markivka Raion

Markivskyi Raion
Марківський район
Raion
Flag of Markivskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Markivskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 49°30′31″N 39°32′53″E / 49.50861°N 39.54806°E / 49.50861; 39.54806
Country Ukraine
Region Luhansk Oblast
Established1920
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerMarkivka
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   1 — settlement councils
  • 8 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   1 — urban-type settlements
  • 33 — villages
  •   0 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorOleksandr Gnedko
Area
 • Total1,166 km2 (450 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 14,242
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
92400—92444
Area code+380 6464
Websitehttp://mar.loga.gov.ua

Markivka Raion (Ukrainian: Марківський район) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was an urban-type settlement of Markivka. 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 14,242 (2020 est.).[3]

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] Markivka Raion stayed under Ukrainian governmental control.[5] The separatist referendum on 11 May on independence was not held in the Raion.[6]

  1. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  3. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
  4. ^ Ukraine crisis timeline, BBC News
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ Any violations allowed in Luhansk Oblast referendum, Kyiv Post (11 May 2014)