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
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
) within
Donetsk Oblast
Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...
in eastern
Ukraine
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. Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
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 ( Lyman urban hromada, formerly Krasnyi Lyman United Territorial Community).
History
Before 1917, the raion was part of the
Kharkov Governorate
Kharkov Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called Sloboda Uk ...
.
Until May 2016, raion was known as Krasnyi Lyman Raion (). On 19 May 2016,
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...
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 2001 Ukrainian census 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.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 only 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 foun ...
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
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s, 194 types of birds, 10 types of
reptile
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s, 9 types of
amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excl ...
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
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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 ...