Manhush Raion
Template:Infobox Ukrainian raion Manhush Raion (Ukrainian: Мангушський район), until May 2016 Pershotravnevyi Raion (Ukrainian: Першотравневий район), is one of the 33 raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Manhush (until 1995 Pershotravnevyi). Population: 27,250 (2013 est.)[1].
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.[2]
Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:[3]
| Ethnicity | ||
| Ukrainians | 14,735 | 50.3% |
| Russians | 7,881 | 26.9% |
| Greeks | 5,882 | 20.1% |
| Belarusians | 208 | 0.7% |
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "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" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012.
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