Manhush Raion

Manhush Raion (Ukrainian: Мангушський район), until May 2016 Pershotravnevyi Raion (Ukrainian: Першотравневий район), was one of the raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Manhush (until 1995 Pershotravnevyi). 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, of which only five were controlled by the government. The area of the former Manhush Raion was merged into the newly created Mariupol Raion. ^[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 25,524 (2020 est.).^[3]

Manhush Raion Мангушський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°3′30.7908″N 37°18′30.2934″E
Country	Ukraine
Region	Donetsk Oblast
Disestablished	18 July 2020
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 km2 (306 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	25,524
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	87400-87455
Area code	+380 6297

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.^[4]

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:^[5]

Ethnicity
Ukrainians	14,735	50.3%
Russians	7,881	26.9%
Greeks	5,882	20.1%
Belarusians	208	0.7%