Rozivka Raion
Rozivka Raion Розівський район | |
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| Coordinates: 47°27′36.15″N 37°0′52.83″E / 47.4600417°N 37.0146750°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Region |  Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
| Established | 26 June 1992 |
| Disestablished | 18 July 2020 |
| Admin. center | Rozivka |
| Subdivisions | List
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| Government | |
| • Governor | Volodymyr Popov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 610 km2 (240 sq mi) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total |  8,277 |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Postal index | 70300—70333 |
| Area code | +380 6162 |
| Website | http://zprozrda.gov.ua |
Rozivka Raion (Ukrainian: Розівський район) was a former raion (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region was the urban-type settlement of Rozivka. 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 Rozivka Raion was merged into Polohy Raion.[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 8,277 (2020 est.).[3]
On 19 April 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a town hall assembly was reportedly organized in Russian-occupied Rozivka, where a majority of attendees (mainly seniors) voted by hand to join the separatist Donetsk People's Republic. This came despite two major issues. The first being that the raion is outside Donetsk Oblast and therefore outside the borders initially claimed by the DPR and its leadership. The second being that the raion hadn't existed for over two years at the time of the vote. Locals claimed the vote was rigged and that organizers threatened anyone voting against with arrest and since the vote the town has been de facto governed by the DPR.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
- ^ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Thomas van Linge on Twitter: "#Ukraine 🇺🇦: the separatist entity #DNR has started to claim areas outside of the #Donbass region as part of its own. Today a sham referendum was held in the village of Rozivka (blue on the map), located in the #Zaporizhzhya oblast, not #Donetsk (orange)" / Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ^ "A hall filled with pensioners in the occupied village of Rozovka in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast voted to join the "DNR" Rozivka - Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com". Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
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