Manhush Raion (), until May 2016 Pershotravnevyi Raion (), was one of the raions of
Donetsk Oblast
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, located in southeastern
Ukraine
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. The administrative center of the raion was the
urban-type settlement
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of Manhush (until 1995 ''Pershotravnevyi''). The raion was abolished 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 the former Manhush Raion was merged into the newly created
Mariupol Raion
Mariupol Raion (; ) is a raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Mariupol. Population: The area of the raion h ...
. The last estimate of the raion population was
The militia of the
Donetsk People's Republic
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occupied the region for a short time but was expelled by the
Donbas Battalion
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, a paramilitary group which consists of locals from the Donbass region.
On 19 May 2016,
Verkhovna Rada
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adopted a decision to rename Pershotravnevyi Raion to Manhush Raion according to the law prohibiting names of Communist origin.