Manhush Raion

Manhush Raion Мангушський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 47°3′30.7908″N 37°18′30.2934″E / 47.058553000°N 37.308414833°ECoordinates: 47°3′30.7908″N 37°18′30.2934″E / 47.058553000°N 37.308414833°E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Donetsk Oblast
Admin. center	Manhush
Subdivisions	List    — city councils   2 — settlement councils 16 — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities   2 — urban-type settlements 16 — villages   8 — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Borys Trima
Area
• Total	792 km^2 (306 sq mi)
Population (2013)
• Total	27,250
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index	87400-87455
Area code	+380 6297

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

1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
2. "Рада переименовала Комсомольск в Горишние Плавни" (in Ukrainian). lb.ua. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
3. "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 27 November 2012.