There are 37 populated places in Luhansk Oblast , Ukraine , that have been officially granted city status (Ukrainian : місто , romanized : misto ) by the Verkhovna Rada , the country's parliament.[ 2] Settlements with more than 10,000 people are eligible for city status although the status is typically also granted to settlements of historical or regional importance.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] As of 5 December 2001, the date of the first and only official census in the country since independence,[ a] the most populous city in the oblast was the regional capital Luhansk , with a population of 463,097 people, while the least populous city was Almazna , with a population of 5,061 people.[ 6] [ 7] Almazna is also the most recent settlement to receive city status, having been granted the status by the Verkhovna Rada in 1977.[ 8]
From independence in 1991 until 2020, 14 cities in the oblast were designated as cities of regional significance (municipalities ), which had self-government under city councils , while the oblast's remaining 23 cities were located in 18 raions (districts ) as cities of district significance , which are subordinated to the governments of the raions.[ 9] [ 10] [ 7] On 18 July 2020, an administrative reform abolished and merged the oblast's raions and cities of regional significance into eight new, expanded raions .[ b] [ 3] [ 13] The eight raions that make up the oblast are Alchevsk , Dovzhansk , Luhansk , Rovenky , Shchastia , Sievierodonetsk , Starobilsk , and Svatove .[ c] [ 16] [ 17] After the enactment of decommunization laws , nine cities within the oblast were renamed in 2016 for their former names' connection to people, places, events, and organizations associated with the Soviet Union .[ d] [ 20] [ 21] The renamed cities are Bokovo-Khrustalne , Dovzhansk , Holubivka , Kadiivka , Khrustalnyi , Kypuche , Petrovo-Krasnosillia , Sorokyne , and Voznesenivka , which were previously named Vakhrusheve, Sverdlovsk, Kirovsk, Stakhanov, Krasnyi Luch, Artemivsk, Petrovske, Krasnodon, and Chervonopartyzansk, respectively.[ 22]
Following the Donbas war , pro-Russian separatist forces occupied all 25 cities located in the Alchevsk, Dovzhansk, Luhansk, and Rovenky raions by 2014.[ 11] [ 14] Additional cities were occupied by Russian troops after 24 February 2022, during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine .[ 23] [ 24] Since the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Lysychansk on 3 July 2022, all cities in the oblast have been occupied by Russian forces.[ 25]
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