Bilmak Raion

Bilmak Raion
Bilmak Raion; Більмацький район
	Raion
	Flag Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 47°20′31.25″N 36°44′29.58″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Zaporizhia Oblast
Established	1935
Admin. center	Bilmak
Subdivisions	List 0 — city councils; 2 — settlement councils; 13 — rural councils; ; ; Number of localities:; 0 — cities; 2 — urban-type settlements; 38 — villages; — rural settlements;
Government
• Governor	Volodymyr Zaykovskyi
Area
• Total	1,300 km2 (500 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	23,354
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	71000—71053
Area code	+380 6147
Website	http://krada.da.zp.ua

Bilmak Raion (Ukrainian: Більмацький район), until May 2016 Kuibysheve Raion (Ukrainian: Куйбишевський район), is one of the 20 raions (districts) of Zaporizhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is the urban-type settlement of Bilmak. Population: 23,354 (2013 est.)[1].

On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kuibysheve Raion to Bilmak Raion and Kuibysheve to Bilmak according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.[2]

References

Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
"Pro perejmenuvannja dejakih naselenih punktiv" (in Ukrainian). Holos Ukrainy. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.

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[ua2013estimate-1] Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.

[2] "Pro perejmenuvannja dejakih naselenih punktiv" (in Ukrainian). Holos Ukrainy. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.