Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion
| Stanytchno-Luhanskyi Raion Станично-Луганський район | |||
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| Raion | |||
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| Country |
 Ukraine | ||
| Region | Luhansk Oblast | ||
| Established | 1923 | ||
| Admin. center | Stanytsia Luhanska | ||
| Subdivisions |
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| Government | |||
| • Governor | Yuriy Gladkyh | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 1,900 km2 (700 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2013) | |||
| • Total |
 49,870 | ||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||
| Postal index | 93600—93655 | ||
| Area code | +380 6472 | ||
| Website | http://stn.loga.gov.ua | ||
Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion (Ukrainian: Станично-Луганський район) is a raion (district) in the eastern Ukrainian province of Luhansk.
On July 2, 2014, This Town and Mykolaivka were badly hit; nine civilians were killed. The Ukrainian authorities said the bloodshed happened when rebel forces launched rockets from a Grad rocket launcher; the Grad was later seized by government forces. A resident of the Kondrashovka locality (part of this place) said that an aircraft first targeted an insurgent position nearby, but that its second strike hit the village. The deputy commander of a Ukrainian battalion said the place may have been hit both by the aircraft and by shelling from outside.
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[1]
- Russian 85.1%
- Ukrainian 14.2%
- Armenian 0.2%
- Belarusian 0.1%
- Romani 0.1%
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