Nikolske Raion ( uk, Нікольський район), until May 2016 Volodarske Raion ( uk, Володарський район), was one of the raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southwestern

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. The administrative center of the raion was the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Nikolske Nikolske ( uk, Нiкольське) is an urban-type settlement in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is located in the industrial region of the Donets Basin. It was the administrative seat of Nikolske Raion until 2020; the settlement now belon ...

. 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 Nikolske Raion was merged into

Mariupol Raion Mariupol Raion ( uk, Маріупольський район, Mariupolskyi raion, russian: Мариупольский район, Mariupolsky rayon) is a raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the refor ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was On 21 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 decision to rename Volodarske Raion to Nikolske Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin. The raion center, Volodarske, was previously renamed to Nikolske.

Population

Ethnic groups in the raion, according to 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.

:National composition and native language of the Donetsk Oblast

References

Former raions of Donetsk Oblast 1925 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Donetsk-geo-stub