Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area 794.7 km² | Admin. center Manhush Postal index 87400-87455 Population 27,250 (2013) Area code 6297 | |
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Subdivisions List — city councils 2 — settlement councils16 — rural councilsNumber of localities: — cities 2 — urban-type settlements16 — villages 8 — rural settlements | ||
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.).
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Map of Pershotravnevyi district, Donetska, Ukraine
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.
Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:
References
Manhush Raion Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA