Manhush Raion


Manhush Raion, until May 2016 Pershotravnevyi Raion, is one of the 33 raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Manhush. Population:.
The militia of the Donetsk People's Republic occupied the region for a short time but was expelled by the Donbas Battalion, a paramilitary group which consists of locals from the Donbass region.
On 19 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted a decision to rename Pershotravnevyi Raion to Manhush Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census:
Ethnicity
Ukrainians14,73550.3%
Russians7,88126.9%
Greeks5,88220.1%
Belarusians2080.7%