Trostianets Raion () was a raion in
Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presid ...
in
Central Ukraine
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The ...
. The
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
of the raion was the town of
Trostianets. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Sumy Oblast to five. The last estimate of the raion population was
In March 1930 the Raion was the centre of a quickly defeated
pro-Ukrainian anti-
Soviet Union
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revolt.
A Different Peasantry
The Ukrainian Week
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(6 May 2011)
References
Former raions of Sumy Oblast
1939 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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