Country Ukraine Time zone EET (UTC+2) Administrative center Vynohradne Region Donetsk Oblast | Established N/A Postal index 876-XX Area code 380 Subdivisions 52 | |
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Admin. center Novoazovsk (de jure)
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The Novoazovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Новоазовський район, Novoazovs’kyi raion; Russian: Новоазовский район, Novoazovskiy raion) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Novoazovsk, and its southern portion borders the Azov Sea. Population: 35,737 (2013 est.)
Contents
- Map of Novoazovskyi district Donetska Ukraine
- Location and division
- History
- Demographics
- Environment
- Settlements
- References
Map of Novoazovs'kyi district, Donetska, Ukraine
Location and division
Novoazovsk Raion borders the city of Mariupol (Illich and Ordzhonikidze raions of Mariupol) to its west and has the international Russia-Ukraine border to its east. To its northwest, Novoazovsk Raion shares borders with Volodarske Raion. To its north Novoazovsk Raion borders Telmanove Raion.
The raion is divided into 15 municipal councils: one city municipality, one town municipality and 13 - rural councils. Within Novoazovsk Raion there are one city, Novoazovsk, one urban-type settlement (Sedovo), 9 selsovets, and 59 small settlements. Also included within the raion are 14 industrial organizations, 4 construction and transport organizations, 9 kolhozy, 5 sovhozy, 3 fisheries cooperatives (rybkolhozy), 5 industrial organizations, 4 construction companies, 35 medical schools, 27 resort areas, and 26 libraries.
History
Before the defeat of the Don Republic by the Red Army in 1920, the territory of the Novoazovsk Raion was part of the Taganrog Okrug of the Don Republic. In April of the same year, the territory as the Taganrog Raion was ceded to the newly organaized Donetsk Governorate.
In the beginning of 1923, the Novo-Mykolayivka Raion was organized. On September 22, 1923, the administrative center of the Novo-Mykolayivka Raion, Novo-Mykolayivka, was renamed Budyonivka, and the Raion became Budyonivka Raion.In 1958, the Budyonivka Raion was again renamed, becoming the Novoazovsk Raion, and its administrative center was renamed Novoazovsk.
Within the Novoazovsk Raion, were born the: Arctic explorer Georgy Sedov, the general-polkovnik Hero of the Soviet Union I. Lyudnikov, poet N. Scherbina, and the sculptor N. Yasinenko.
On 9 December 2014, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, changed the boundaries and total area of the Novoazovsk Raion to encompass 818.612 km2 (316.068 sq mi). The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Vynohradne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the War in Donbass.
Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census: