Boikivske Raion

Telmanove Raion Тельманівський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Ukraine
Region	Donetsk Oblast
Established	1923
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Telmanove (de jure) Myrne (de facto)
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 km2 (313.87 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	13,773
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	87100-87182
Area code	+380 6279

Telmanove Raion (Template:Lang-uk) or Boikivske Raion (Template:Lang-uk) was one of the administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, until 2020. The administrative center of the raion is located in the urban-type settlement of Telmanove, also known as Boikivske. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was 13,773 (2020 est.).

Since 2014, much of the area of the raion has been controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a Russia-supported breakaway state (later explicitly and illegally annexed by Russia). The raion was officially abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight, but the DPR has continued using Telmanove Raion as an administrative unit after 2020.

History

The raion was originally formed as Ostheim Raion in late 1934, with Ostheim (now Telmanove) as its center. In 1935, the raion was renamed Telmanove Raion 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.

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 commemoration 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:

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