It was originally formed in 1923 as
Sorokyne Raion. It was subordinate to of
Donets Governorate of the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On August 12, 1927, it received the status of a
national raion for ethnic
Russians. At the time, it had a population of 13,216 people, of whom 80.5% were ethnic Russians. In 1930, it was assigned to
Luhansk Okruha. From September 1930 to 1932, it was subordinated directly to the republic. In 1932, it was assigned to
Donetsk Oblast. By this time, it was still considered a national raion. In June 1938, it was transferred to Voroshylovhrad Oblast (later renamed
Luhansk Oblast). Initially, Krasnodon was incorporated as a
city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, but in 2015, Ukraine officially merged it into the raion. In 2016, the
Verkhovna Rada renamed Krasnodon Raion to
Sorokyne Raion, implementing the law prohibiting names of Communist origin. Sorokyne Raion was abolished by Ukraine on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight. The LPR continued using the raion - under the name "Krasnodon Raion" - as an administrative unit after that point, and following the
2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has done the same. ==Demographics==