The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Nikolske.

The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, of which only five were controlled by the government.

[3] On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Volodarske Raion to Nikolske Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.

[4] The raion center, Volodarske, was previously renamed to Nikolske.

[citation needed] Ethnic groups in the raion, according to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[5] This article about a location in Donetsk Oblast is a stub.