Prymorsk Raion () was one of the

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 ...

s (

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s) of

Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast (), commonly referred to as Zaporizhzhia (), is an oblast (region) in south-east Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zaporizhzhia. The oblast covers an area of , and has a population of The oblast is an import ...

in southern

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between 1923 and 2020. The administrative center of the region was the city of

Prymorsk Prymorsk (, ; ) is a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Prymorsk urban hromada in Berdiansk Raion. Population: History Prymorsk was a settlement in Taurida Governorate of the Russian Empire, or ...

. 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 Prymorsk Raion was merged into

Berdiansk Raion Berdiansk Raion, also spelled Berdyansk Raion () is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is Berdiansk. The raion has access to the northern coast of the Sea of Azov ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was

History

The raion was created in 1923 during the time of the

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, under the name Nohaisk Raion (). At the time, Prymorsk was known as ''Nohaisk''. In October 1930 peasants in the raion rioted for three weeks against forced

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by the Soviet authorities. It received the name ''Prymorsk Raion'' in 1964, when Nohaisk was renamed Prymorsk. In 1967, Prymorsk became a city of regional significance; while it still served as the administrative center of the raion, it was no longer subordinate to it, instead being subordinate directly to

within the

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Administrative divisions

At the time of its abolition, Prymorsk Raion was divided into three

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s: * Kolarivka rural hromada, centered in the village Bolharka (now Sofiivka) * Novooleksiivka rural hromada, centered in the village *

Prymorsk urban hromada Prymorsk urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Berdiansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Prymorsk. It has an area of and a population of 22,797, as of 2020. The hromada contains 20 settlements: 1 ...

, centered in Prymorsk

References

Former raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Bulgarian communities in Ukraine 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zaporizhzhia-geo-stub