Yasynuvata Raion

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Yasynuvatskyi Raion
Ясинуватський район
Raion
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Country  Ukraine
Region Donetsk Oblast
Admin. center Yasynuvata (de jure)
Ocheretyne (de facto)[1][2]
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   3 — settlement councils
  • 9 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   3 — urban-type settlements
  • 30 — villages
  •   13 — rural settlements
Government
 • Governor Dmytro Dyzchenko
Area
 • Total 809 km2 (312 sq mi)
Population (2013)
 • Total Decrease 27,845
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index 86000-86092
Area code +380 6236

Yasynuvata Raion (Ukrainian: Ясинуватський район, Yasynuvats’kyi raion) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the city of Yasynuvata, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the districts jurisdiction. Population: 27,845 (2013 est.)[3]

History

On 9 December 2014, following the events surrounding the War in Donbass, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, moved Yasynuvats’kyi district's administration buildings and government to вул. Першотравнева 12, (English: 12 May Day Street) in Ocheretyne urban-type settlement, which is near H20 about 35 km northnorthwest of Donetsk.[1][2]

Early February 2016 well known separatist Pavel Gubarev was appointed Yasynuvata Raion mayor by the Donetsk People's Republic.[4]

Demographics

National composition of the population in the district according to the 2001 Ukrainian Census.[5]

Ethnicity Number Percent
Ukrainians 21,009 69.3%
Russians 8,295 27.4%
Belarusians 300 1.0%

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