It was subordinate to Shakhty Okruha [uk] of Donets Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[2] On August 12, 1927, it received the status of a national raion for ethnic Russians.

[citation needed] Since 2014, Krasnodon Raion has been controlled by forces of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).

[citation needed] 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.

[6][7] 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.