Sverdlovsk Raion

Sverdlovsk Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Sverdlovsk, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Since 2014 the raion was not under control of Ukrainian government and has been part of the Luhansk People's Republic which continues using it as an administrative unit. The administrative center of the raion is the city of Sverdlovsk, which previously was incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015 was merged into the raion. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was , .
In 2016, the Verkhovna Rada renamed Sverdlovsk Dovzhansk and Sverdlovsk Raion Dovzhansk Raion, according to the law prohibiting the names of Communist origin. On 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, the rail has been significantly extended. The Luhansk People's Republic continues to use the old name and the old area of the raion.
History.
Since 2014, the raion has been controlled by forces of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Demographics.
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census: