Bilmak Raion
Більмацький район
Raion
Flag of Bilmak Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Bilmak Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°20′31.25″N 36°44′29.58″E / 47.3420139°N 36.7415500°E / 47.3420139; 36.7415500
Country Ukraine
RegionZaporizhzhia Oblast
EstablishedMarch 1923
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerBilmak
Subdivisions
List
  •   0 — city councils
  •   2 — settlement councils
  • 13 — rural councils
  • Number of localities:
      0 — cities
  •   2 — urban-type settlements
  • 38 — villages
  •    — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorVolodymyr Zaykovskyi
Area
 • Total1,300 km2 (500 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 20,922
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
71000—71053
Area code+380 6147
Websitehttp://krada.da.zp.ua

Bilmak Raion (Ukrainian: Більмацький район) was one of the raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine from 1923 until 2020. The administrative center of the region was the urban-type settlement of Bilmak (now Kamianka).

History

The raion was established in March 1923 as Tsarekostiantynivka Raion (Ukrainian: Царекостянтинівський район, when its center was still known as Tsarekostiantynivka. In January 1926, when Tsarekostiantynivka was renamed to Pershotravneve, the raion was renamed to Pershotravneve Raion. In 1935, when the village was renamed yet again to Kuibysheve, the raion was renamed again to Kuibysheve Raion (Ukrainian: Куйбишевський район).[1]

On 21 May 2016, Verkhovna Rada adopted decision to rename Kuibysheve Raion to Bilmak Raion and Kuibysheve to Bilmak according to the law prohibiting names of communist origin.[2]

The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast to five. The area of Bilmak Raion was merged into Polohy Raion.[3][4] The last estimate of the raion population was 20,922 (2020 est.)[5].

References

  1. ↑ "Куйбишеве, Куйбишевський район, Запорізька область". Історія міст і сіл Української РСР (in Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ "Pro perejmenuvannja dejakih naselenih punktiv" (in Ukrainian). Holos Ukrainy. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  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.
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