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There were 490 raions in 24 oblasts and the Crimea autonomous republic of Ukraine. The number of raions per region (oblast and autonomous republic) varies between 11 and over 20. The average area of a Ukrainian raion before the reform was 1,200 km 2 (463 sq mi). The average population was 52,000.
A raion (Ukrainian: район, romanized: raion; pl. райони, raiony), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union, to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, belonged.
In March 2022, a week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 98% of Ukrainians—including 82% of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine—said they did not believe that any part of Ukraine was rightfully part of Russia, according to Lord Ashcroft's polls which did not include Crimea and the separatist-controlled part of Donbas. 97% of Ukrainians ...
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city . The word is from the French rayon (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), [ 1 ] and is commonly translated as ' district ' in English.
Most of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, including Dnipro Raion, is located in eastern Ukraine, though some parts are in central and southern Ukraine, such as Kamianske Raion and Nikopol Raion, respectively. The area of the oblast (31,974 km 2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is 130 km, from east ...
Manhush (Ukrainian: Мангуш) is an rural settlement in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It was the administrative seat of Manhush Raion, but is now administered under Mariupol Raion. The population is 7,731 (2022 estimate). [1] The town has been under Russian occupation since March 2022.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops entered and took over Myhailivka. People later went out to protest this and planted a Ukrainian flag in the town square. [3] [4] [unreliable source] Until 26 January 2024, Mykhailivka was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this ...
He was purchased as a puppy by Mykhailo "Misha" Iliev (born c. 1990), a bomb disposal technician from Chernihiv who has worked with the State Emergency Service of Ukraine since 2014. Iliev, who later became Patron's exclusive handler, originally intended to give the puppy to his son as a pet but soon began training Patron as a detection dog ...