Telmanove Raion

Telmanove Raion (Ukrainian: Тельманівський район, romanized: Telmanivskyi raion) is one of the administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. 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.[3][4] However, since 2014 much of the raion was not under control of Ukrainian government and has been part of the Donetsk People's Republic which continues using it as an administrative unit.[5] The administrative center of the raion is located in the urban-type settlement of Telmanove. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was 13,773 (2020 est.).[6]

Telmanove Raion
Тельманівський район
Raion
Flag of Telmanove Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Telmanove Raion
Coat of arms
Country Ukraine
RegionDonetsk Oblast
Established1923
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerTelmanove (de jure)
Myrne (de facto)[1][2]
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   3 — settlement councils
  • 12 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   3 — urban-type settlements
  • 53 — villages
  •   4 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorOlga Afenkina
Area
 • Total812.92 km2 (313.87 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 13,773
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
87100-87182
Area code+380 6279

History

The raion has been named after the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann.

As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of Boykos from the village of Chorna (today Czarna in Poland), the former Nyzhni Ustryky Raion of Drohobych Oblast that was transferred to Poland.

On 9 December 2014, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, changed the boundaries and total area of Telmanove Raion to encompass 812.92 km2 (313.87 sq mi). The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Myrne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the war in Donbas.[1][2]

A small part of the raion on the west bank of the Kalmius river was under Ukrainian army control, from the north city of Starohnativka to the south city of Mykolaivka. To facilitate the administration, the government transferred this area to other administrative units, so that the amended area of the raion until 2020 was under control of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion into Boikivske Raion and Telmanove to Boikivske, in memory of the Boykos people, who were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County (today in Poland) after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange. The Donetsk People's Republic continues to recognize the old name.

Geography

Telmanove Raion bordered Novoazovsk Raion to its south, Nikolske Raion to its southwest, Volnovakha Raion to its west, Starobesheve Raion to its north. From the east, the raion is bounded by the international Russia–Ukraine border.

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into three settlement councils and twelve rural councils.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[7]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians20,44257.8%
Russians7,35920.8%
Greeks (Urums)6,17217.5%
Tatars6231.8%
Belarusians1650.5%
Germans1520.4%

Note: Urums are Turkic speaking Greeks. Many of them were deported here with the First annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire (1784) from Balaklava, on the Crimean Peninsula, once a cultural center for Pontic Greeks (see also Mariupol Greek).

  • Monument in Konkove (25th Anniversary of Donbas liberation from Nazi invaders)
    Monument in Konkove (25th Anniversary of Donbas liberation from Nazi invaders)
  • Landscape of the Kalmius Reserve
    Landscape of the Kalmius Reserve
  • Kalmius River at the Kalmius Reserve
    Kalmius River at the Kalmius Reserve

References
  1. Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 32-VIII: Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному устрої Донецької області, зміну і встановлення меж Волноваського, Новоазовського та Тельманівського районів Донецької області (On the changes in the administrative and territorial structure of Donetsk Oblast, changing and defining the boundaries of the Volnovakha, Novoazovsk and Telmanove Raions of Donetsk Oblast). Adopted on 11 December 2014. (Ukrainian)
  2. "In the Donetsk Oblast three district centers removed from the territory seized by militants". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 8 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  5. "Мероприятия, запланированные на 2020 год в сферах жилищно-коммунального хозяйства и строительства" (in Russian). Donetsk People's Republic.
  6. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
  7. "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.

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