Yasynuvata Raion

Yasynuvata Raion (Ukrainian: Ясинуватський район, romanized: Yasynuvats'kyi raion) was one of the administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district was the city of Yasynuvata, which was incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the districts jurisdiction.

Yasynuvatskyi Raion Ясинуватський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°14′46.5″N 37°36′55.5″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk Oblast
Disestablished	2020
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  (2020)
• Total	25,942
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	86000-86092
Area code	+380 6236

Beginning in 2014, with the onset of the War in Donbas, the raion was split: The western part was under control of the central Ukrainian government, whereas its eastern part was under control of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The raion was abolished by the Ukrainian government 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 Yasynuvata Raion was partitioned with government-controlled areas were merged into Kramatorsk Raion and Pokrovsk Raion, and separatist-controlled areas being merged into Donetsk Raion.^[3][4] The last estimate of the raion population, reported by the Ukrainian government, was 25,942 (2020 est.).^[5]

History

On 9 December 2014, following the events surrounding the War in Donbass, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, moved Yasynuvata Raion's administration buildings and government to вул. Першотравнева 12, (English: 12 May Day Street) in the urban-type settlement of Ocheretyne, which is near H 20 about 35 km north-northwest of Donetsk.^[1][2] The raion (as under control by Ukrainian authorities) is located 20 kilometers from the frontline of the War in Donbass.^[6]

The city of Yasynuvata was under the control of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic.^[7] In early February 2016, the separatist Pavel Gubarev was appointed as mayor of Yasynuvata Raion in the breakaway region.^[8]

Demographics

National composition of the population in the district according to the 2001 Ukrainian Census.^[9]

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

See also

• Mineralne

References

1. Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 32-VIII: Про зміни в адміністративно-територіальному устрої Донецької області, зміну і встановлення меж Волноваського, Новоазовського та Тельманівського районів Донецької області (On the changes in the administrative and territorial structure of Donetsk Oblast, changing and defining the boundaries of the Volnovakha, Novoazovsk and Telmanove Raions of Donetsk Oblast). Adopted on 11 December 2014. (Ukrainian)
2. "In the Donetsk Oblast three district centers removed from the territory seized by militants". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 8 December 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
5. Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
6. One Ukrainian serviceman killed, another 2 wounded in Donbas in past 24 hours, Interfax-Ukraine (26 August 2016)
7. Over half of Donbas truce breaches observed in Yasynuvata, Avdiyivka, Donetsk airport, Interfax-Ukraine (5 August 2016)
8. Ukraine’s eastern separatist leaders turn on each other, New Eastern Europe (3 March 2016)
9. "Національний склад та рідна мова населення Донецької області" [Ethnic and linguistic composition of Donetsk Oblast] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.