Telmanove Raion (Boykivske Raion)
Telmanove Raion (Тельманівський район, Telmanivskyi raion) is one of the administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight. However, since 2014 much of the raion was not under control of Ukrainian government and has been part of the Donetsk People's Republic which continues using it as an administrative unit. The administrative center of the raion is located in the urban-type settlement of Telmanove. The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was.
The raion has been named after the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann.
As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of Boykos from the village of Chorna (today Czarna in Poland), 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 Telmanove Raion to encompass 812.92 km2. The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Myrne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the War in Donbas.
A small part of the raion on the west bank of the Kalmius river was under Ukrainian army control, from the north city of Starohnativka to the south city of Mykolaivka. To facilitate the administration, the government transferred this area to other administrative units, so that the amended area of the raion until 2020 was under control of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion into Boikivske Raion and Telmanove to Boikivske, in memory of the Boykos people, who were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County (today in Poland) after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange. The Donetsk People's Republic continues to recognize the old name.
The raion has been named after the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann.
As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of Boykos from the village of Chorna (today Czarna in Poland), 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 Telmanove Raion to encompass 812.92 km2. The district's administration buildings and government was moved to the Myrne urban-type settlement following the events surrounding the War in Donbas.
A small part of the raion on the west bank of the Kalmius river was under Ukrainian army control, from the north city of Starohnativka to the south city of Mykolaivka. To facilitate the administration, the government transferred this area to other administrative units, so that the amended area of the raion until 2020 was under control of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion into Boikivske Raion and Telmanove to Boikivske, in memory of the Boykos people, who were deported from Czarna, Bieszczady County (today in Poland) after the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange. The Donetsk People's Republic continues to recognize the old name.
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During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and was ultimately destroyed by the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. The area was then contested, divided, and ruled by a variety of external powers for the next 600 years, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia. The Cossack Hetmanate emerged in central Ukraine in the 17th century, but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and ultimately absorbed by the Russian Empire. Ukrainian nationalism developed, and following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was formed. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922. In the early 1930s, millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor, a man-made famine. During World War II, Ukraine was devastated by the German occupation.
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| UAH | Ukrainian hryvnia | â‚´ | 2 |
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| HU | Hungarian language |
| PL | Polish language |
| RU | Russian language |
| UK | Ukrainian language |