Manhush Raion

Manhush Raion

Мангушський район
Manhush Raion Мангушський район
Raion
	Flag Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 47°3′30.7908″N 37°18′30.2934″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Donetsk Oblast
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Manhush
Subdivisions	List — city councils; 2 — settlement councils; 16 — rural councils; ; ; Number of localities:; — cities; 2 — urban-type settlements; 16 — villages; 8 — rural settlements;
Government
• Governor	Borys Trima
Area
• Total	792 km2 (306 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	25,524
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	87400-87455
Area code	+380 6297

Manhush Raion (Ukrainian: Мангушський район), until May 2016 Pershotravnevyi Raion (Ukrainian: Першотравневий район), was one of the raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Manhush (until 1995 Pershotravnevyi). 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. The area of the former Manhush Raion was merged into the newly created Mariupol Raion. [1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 25,524 (2020 est.).[3]

The militia of the Donetsk People's Republic occupied the region for a short time but was expelled by the Donbas Battalion, a paramilitary group which consists of locals from the Donbass region.

On 19 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted a decision to rename Pershotravnevyi Raion to Manhush Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.[4]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[5]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians	14,735	50.3%
Russians	7,881	26.9%
Greeks	5,882	20.1%
Belarusians	208	0.7%

References

"Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
"Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
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.
"Рада переименовала Комсомольск в Горишние Плавни" (in Ukrainian). lb.ua. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
"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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[1] "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.

[2] "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.

[ua2020estimate-3] 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.

[4] "Рада переименовала Комсомольск в Горишние Плавни" (in Ukrainian). lb.ua. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.

[5] "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.