Krasnolymanskyi Raion

Infobox Ukrainian raion
name=Krasnolymans'kyi Raion
Ukrainian_name=Краснолиманський район
location_

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country=Ukraine
region=Donetsk Oblast
date_created="N/A"
population=24,781
area=1,018
density="N/A"
phone_code=380
postal_index=873-XX
administrative_center=Krasnyi Lyman
cities=0
urban-type_settlements=5
villages=31
website= [http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A008?rdat1=14.09.2005&rf7571=8142 Verkhovna Rada website]
governor=

The Krasnolymanskyi Raion ( _uk. Краснолиманський район, translit.: "Krasnolymans'kyi raion"; _ru. Краснолиманский район, translit.: "Krasnolimanskiy raion") is a raion (district) within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Krasnyi Lyman, but the city itself is not located within the raion. Its population is 24,781 and its area is 1,018 square kilometres.

Within the Krasnolymanskyi Raion there are: 5 urban-type settlements (Yampil, Kirovs'k, Dorobysheve, Novoselivka, and Yarova), 6 selsovets, and 46 settlements. Also included within the raion are: 5 sovhozy, 11 kolhozy, 7 industrial organisations, 35 schools, 31 libraries, and 2 movie theaters.

Before 1917, the raion was part of the Kharkov Guberniya.

Environment

The national nature park "Svyatyye Hory" is 404.48 km² and it contains plantlife from the region of the Seversky Donets River. The park contains over 1,008 different plants, almost 20% of them being endemic plants. Forty-six plants that grow here and 50 types of animals are entered into the Ukraine's Red Book of Rare Species. The fauna contains 43 types of mammals, 194 types of birds, 10 types of reptiles, 9 types of amphibians and 40 types of fish.

Another nature preserve is the "Melova Flora". Known for its plantlife, the preserve has an area of 11.34 km².

ee also

* Subdivisions of Ukraine
* Donetsk Oblast

External links

* [http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/pls/z7502/A008?rdat1=14.09.2005&rf7571=8142 Verkhovna Rada website] - Administrative divisions of the Krasnolymanskyi Raion