Telmanove Raion

Telmanove Raion (Ukrainian: Тельманівський район, Telmanivskyi raion) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is located in the urban-type settlement of Boykivske, previously Telmanove. Population: 29,550 (2013 est.)[3] The raion was named after the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann.

Telmanove Raion Тельманівський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Ukraine
Region	Donetsk Oblast
Established	1923
Admin. center	Telmanove (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
• Governor	Olga Afenkina
Area
• Total	812.92 km^2 (313.87 sq mi)
Population  (2013)
• Total	29,550
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	87100-87182
Area code	+380 6279

History

As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of Boykos from 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 the 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 Donbass.[1][2]

A small part of the raion on the west bank of the Kalmius River is under Ukrainian army control, from the north city of Starohnativka to the south city of Mykolaivka.

In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion into Boykivske Raion, in memory of the Boykos people, who were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County (today in Poland) after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange.

Geography

Telmanove Raion borders 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:[4]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians	20,442	57.8%
Russians	7,359	20.8%
Greeks (Urums)	6,172	17.5%
Tatars	623	1.8%
Belarusians	165	0.5%
Germans	152	0.4%

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).

Gallery

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  Monument in Konkove (25th Anniversary of Donbas liberation from Nazi invaders)
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  Landscape of the Kalmius Reserve
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  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. Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
4. "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012.