Svatove Raion
Svatove Raion (Ukrainian: Сватівський район, romanized: Svativskyi raion) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the city of Svatove. Population: 76,693 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast was reduced to eight. Only four of which were controlled by the government. The area of Svatove Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 33,302 (2020 est.).
Subdivisions
The raion contains seven hromadas:
- Bilokurakyne settlement hromada
- Kolomyichykha rural hromada
- Krasnorichenske settlement hromada
- Lozno-Oleksandrivka settlement hromada
- Nyzhnia Duvanka settlement hromada
- Svatove urban hromada
- Troitske settlement hromada
Demographics
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 91.4%
- Russians: 7.3%
- Belarusians: 0.3%