Oleksandrivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Coordinates: 48°42′19.8534″N 36°55′31.4328″E / 48.705514833°N 36.925398000°E / 48.705514833; 36.925398000
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Oleksandrivskyi Raion
Олександрівський район
Flag of Oleksandrivskyi Raion
Coat of arms of Oleksandrivskyi Raion
Coordinates: 48°42′19.8534″N 36°55′31.4328″E / 48.705514833°N 36.925398000°E / 48.705514833; 36.925398000
Country Ukraine
RegionDonetsk Oblast
Established1923
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerOleksandrivka
Subdivisions
List
  •    — city councils
  •   1 — settlement councils
  • 15 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
       — cities
  •   1 — urban-type settlements
  • 58 — villages
  •   2 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorOleksiy Bebeshko
Area
 • Total1,010 km2 (390 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 17,615
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
84000-84066
Area code+380 6269

Oleksandrivka Raion (Ukrainian: Олександрівський район) was one of the raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Oleksandrivka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, of which only five were controlled by the government.[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 17,615 (2020 est.).[3]

Demographics[edit]

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[4]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians 21,162 91.9%
Russians 1,533 6.7%
Belarusians 110 0.5%

References[edit]

  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 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. ^ "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.