Telmanove Raion


Telmanove Raion is one of the 18 administrative raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is located in the urban-type settlement of Boykivske, previously Telmanove. Population: The raion was named after the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann.

History

As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of Boykos from village of Chorna, the former Nyzhni Ustryky Raion of Drohobych Oblast that was transferred to Poland.
On 9 December 2014, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, changed the boundaries and total area of the Telmanove Raion to encompass. The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Myrne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the War in Donbass.
A small part of the raion on the west bank of the Kalmius River is under Ukrainian army control, from the north city of Starohnativka to the south city of Mykolaivka.
In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion into Boykivske Raion, in memory of the Boykos people, who were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange.

Geography

Telmanove Raion borders Novoazovsk Raion to its south, Nikolske Raion to its southwest, Volnovakha Raion to its west, Starobesheve Raion to its north. From the east, the raion is bounded by the international Russia-Ukraine border.

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into three settlement councils and twelve rural councils.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:
Ethnicity
Ukrainians20,44257.8%
Russians7,35920.8%
Greeks 6,17217.5%
Tatars6231.8%
Belarusians1650.5%
Germans1520.4%

Note: Urums are Turkic speaking Greeks. Many of them were deported here with the First annexation of Crimea by the Russian Empire from Balaklava, on the Crimean Peninsula, once a cultural center for Pontic Greeks.

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