[3] Bilovodsk Raion was originally formed in 1923 as part of Starobilsk Okruha [uk] of Donets Governorate of the Ukrainian SSR.

During the occupation, they heavily destroyed the economy and infrastructure of the raion, and kidnapped 136 young people from Bilovodsk alone for forced labor in Germany.

[5] On February 5, 1965, in accordance with a decree of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR that tweaked administration across the republic, Brusivka rural council [uk] was transferred from Starobilsk Raion to Bilovodsk Raion, slightly enlarging the latter's territory.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the territory of the former raion was occupied by Russia and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an unrecognized Russian puppet state claiming the territory of Luhansk Oblast.

[11] On 4 August 2022, Ukrainian partisans shot at a car carrying Kovalenko and his deputy Valentyna Hladkova, wounding both.

[11] In November 2023, the Luhansk Oblast Prosecutor's Office announced they would be prosecuting the so-called "head of the administration of the Bilovodsky District of the LPR" as well as the "deputy" for collaborationism with Russia.

[13] According to official Soviet-era sources, the main economy of the raion was agriculture, especially grain farming and animal husbandry.