Lyman Raion () was a
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...
(district) in
Odesa Oblast
Odesa Oblast (), also referred to as Odeshchyna (Одещина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administrative centre is the city of Ode ...
of
Ukraine
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. Its administrative center was the
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
of
Dobroslav. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Lyman Raion was split between
Berezivka and
Odesa Raion
Odesa Raion () or Odessa Raion () is a List of raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It was created on 17 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. Biliaivka Raion, Biliaivka Municipality, Bili ...
s.
The last estimate of the raion population was
On 21 May 2016,
Verkhovna Rada
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adopted decision to rename Kominternivske Raion to Lyman Raion and Kominternivske to Dobroslav according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of six
hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level Administrative divisions of Ukraine, local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Cabinet of ministers of Ukraine, Government of Uk ...
s:
*
Chornomorske settlement hromada with the administration in the
urban-type settlement
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of
Chornomorske
Chornomorske or Chernomorskoye (; ; ) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Chornomorske Raion in Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) and occupied ...
, transferred to Odesa Raion;
*
Dobroslav settlement hromada with the administration in Dobroslav, transferred to Odesa Raion;
*
Fontanka rural hromada with the administration in the
selo of
Fontanka
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, transferred to Odesa Raion;
*
Krasnosilka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Krasnosilka, transferred to Odesa Raion;
*
Kurisove rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Kurisove, transferred to Berezivka Raion;
*
Vyzyrka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of
Vyzyrka, transferred to Odesa Raion.
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Former raions of Odesa Oblast
1923 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
History of Odesa Raion