Popasna Raion
Popasna Raion is a raion in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center is the town of Popasna. Population:.
During the War in Donbass the Ukrainian authorities lost control over parts of the raion to the Luhansk People's Republic.
On 7 October 2014, to facilitate the governance of Luhansk Oblast, the Verkhovna Rada made some changes in the administrative divisions, so that the localities in the government-controlled areas were grouped into districts. In particular, the urban-type settlement of Chornukhyne was transferred to Popasna Raion from Perevalsk Raion, the urban-type settlement of Novotoshkivske from Kirovsk Municipality, and the towns of Hirske and Zolote and the urban-type settlements of Nyzhnie and Toshkivka from Pervomaisk Municipality.Demographics
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:
;Ethnicity
- Ukrainians: 81.1%
- Russians: 17.5%
- Belarusians: 0.5%