Populated places in the raion include: Cheliadinove, Ohonky, Kostyrine, Naberezhne, Frontove, Yehorove, and Zavitne.

The Nazis committed atrocities and human rights abuses against prisoners of war and the civilian population during this time.

[2] In May 1944, the Crimean Tatars - the indigenous peoples of the peninsula - were deported from Crimea by the Soviet authorities in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Localities with indigenous Crimean Tatar names were renamed, to remove traces of the original inhabitants.

Lenine Raion became part of an interim polity known as the Republic of Crimea, as specifics were worked out.

Eventually, the legal status was resolved, and Lenine Raion became part of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine in 1998.

[citation needed] In July 2020, Ukraine conducted an administrative reform throughout its de jure territory.

It had a slim majority of ethnic Russians (54.8%), with significant minorities of Ukrainians (22.9%), Crimean Tatars (15.5%), and Belarusians (1.3%).