Administrative divisions of Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Oblast is subdivided into districts (raions) which are subdivided into territorial communities (hromadas).

Current

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Raions of Luhansk Oblast as of August 2020.

On 18 July 2020, the number of districts was reduced to eight.[1][2] This includes territories not under control of Ukrainian government, where the old territorial division is in use. The eight districts are:

  1. Alchevsk (Алчевський район), the center is in the town of Alchevsk;
  2. Dovzhansk (Довжанський район), the center is in the town of Dovzhansk (Sverdlovsk);
  3. Luhansk (Луганський район), the center is in the city of Luhansk;
  4. Rovenky (Ровеньківський район), the center is in the town of Rovenky;
  5. Shchastia (Щастинський район), the center is in the urban-type settlement of Novoaidar;
  6. Sievierodonetsk (Сєвєродонецький район), the center is in the city of Sievierodonetsk;
  7. Starobilsk (Старобільський район), the center is in the town of Starobilsk;
  8. Svatove (Сватівський район), the center is in the town of Svatove.
Luhansk Oblast
As of January 1, 2022
Number of districts (райони) 8
Number of hromadas (громади) 37

Administrative divisions until 2020

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Raions of Luhansk Oblast until 2020. The city of Luhansk is shown in dark blue.

Until 2020, Luhansk Oblast was subdivided into 32 regions: 18 districts (raions) and 14 city municipalities (mis'krada or misto), officially known as territories governed by city councils.[3]

In 2014, in Luhansk Oblast the War in Donbass started. As a result, part of the area was controlled by the Ukrainian government, whereas the rest was controlled by the forces of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). In particular, several raions and city municipalities were split between the government-controlled and LPR-controlled areas. To facilitate the governance, the Verkhovna Rada on 7 October 2014 made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. The list below contains LPR-controlled areas[4][5] as well.

References

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  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.
  3. ^ Чисельність наявного населення України (in Ukrainian). State Service of Statistics. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Кабмин назвал города Донбасса, подконтрольные сепаратистам" (in Russian). Корреспондент. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республ ике" (PDF) (in Russian). Luhansk People's Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-04. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
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