Lyman Raion ( uk, Лиманський район,
translit.: ''Lymans'kyi raion''; russian: Лиманский район,
translit.: ''Limanskiy raion'') was a
raion
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 (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...
(
district
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) within
Donetsk Oblast
The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...
in eastern
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...
. Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
was
Lyman, which was separately incorporated as a
city of oblast significance and did not belong to the district. Its area was and its population was approximately .
In 2016, Lyman Raion was abolished and merged into
Lyman municipality (, formerly Krasnyi Lyman United Territorial Community).
History
Before 1917, the raion was part of the
Kharkov Governorate
The Kharkov Governorate ( pre-reform Russian: , tr. ''Khárkovskaya gubérniya'', IPA: �xarʲkəfskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə ) was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. Fr ...
.
Until May 2016, raion was known as Krasnyi Lyman Raion ( uk, Краснолиманський район). On 19 May 2016,
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
adopted a decision to rename Krasnyi Lyman Raion to Lyman Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin. Krasnyi Lyman was previously renamed to Lyman according to the same law.
Demographics
As of the
2001 Ukrainian census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. :
;Ethnicity
* Ukrainians: 53.3%
* Russians: 45.0%
Environment
The national nature park ''Svyati Hory'' is 404.48 km² and it contains plant life from the region of the
Seversky Donets River. The park contains over 1,008 different plants, almost 20% of them being
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
plants. Forty-six plants that grow here and 50 types of animals are entered into the
Ukraine's Red Book of Rare Species. The fauna contains 43 types of
mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur ...
s, 194 types of birds, 10 types of
reptile
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s, 9 types of
amphibian
Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arbo ...
s and 40 types of fish.
Another nature preserve is the ''Melova Flora''. Known for its plant life, the preserve has an area of 11.34 km².
See also
*
Administrative divisions of Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast is subdivided into districts (''raions'') which are further subdivided into territorial communities (''hromadas'').
Current
On 18 July 2020, the number of districts was reduced to eight. This includes territories not under control o ...
References
External links
*
Verkhovna Rada website- Administrative divisions of the Krasnolymanskyi Raion
Former raions of Donetsk Oblast
States and territories disestablished in 2016
1944 establishments in Ukraine
2016 disestablishments in Ukraine
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