Volnovakha Raion
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Volnovakha Raion (Ukrainian: Волноваський район, [Volnovas’kyi raion] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is located in the city of Volnovakha. Population: 83,930 (2013 est.)[1]
History
On 9 December 2014, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, changed the boundaries and total area of the Volnovakha Raion to encompass 2,549.44 km2 (984.34 sq mi) following the events surrounding the War in Donbass.[2]
Subsequently, the Governor of Donetsk Oblast Oleksandr Kikhtenko adopted a resolution moving the administrative center of the Novoazovsk Raion to the urban-type settlement of Vynohradne; the administrative center of the Telmanove Raion to the urban-type settlement of Myrne; and the administrative center of the Yasynuvata Raion to the urban-type settlement of Ocheretyne.[3]
Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census,[4]
| Ethnicity | Number | Proportion |
| Ukrainians | 72,346 | 78.2% |
| Russians | 15,128 | 16.4% |
| Greeks | 2,959 | 3.2% |
| Belarusians | 494 | 0.5% |
| Armenians | 260 | 0.3% |
| Moldovans | 248 | 0.3% |
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.
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External links
- "Main". Official web-site (in Ukrainian). Volnovakha RDA. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
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