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Novoazovsk Raion

Novoazovsk Raion
Новоазовський район
Raion
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Coat of arms of Novoazovsk Raion
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Coordinates: 47°06′42″N 38°04′57″E / 47.11167°N 38.08250°E / 47.11167; 38.08250Coordinates: 47°06′42″N 38°04′57″E / 47.11167°N 38.08250°E / 47.11167; 38.08250
Country  Ukraine
Region Donetsk Oblast
Established N/A
Admin. center Novoazovsk (de jure)
Vynohradne (de facto)
Subdivisions
Government
 • Governor N/A
Area
 • Total 818.612 km2 (316.068 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 35,737
 • Density 44/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index 876-XX
Area code 380
Website Novoazovskiy raion portal

The Novoazovsk Raion (Ukrainian: Новоазовський район, Novoazovs’kyi raion; Russian: Новоазовский район, Novoazovskiy raion) is one of the 18 administrative raions (a district) of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is located in the city of Novoazovsk, and its southern portion borders the Azov Sea. Population: 35,737 (2013 est.)

Novoazovsk Raion borders the city of Mariupol (Illich and Ordzhonikidze raions of Mariupol) to its west and has the international Russia-Ukraine border to its east. To its northwest, Novoazovsk Raion shares borders with Volodarske Raion. To its north Novoazovsk Raion borders Telmanove Raion.

The raion is divided into 15 municipal councils: one city municipality, one town municipality and 13 - rural councils. Within Novoazovsk Raion there are one city, Novoazovsk, one urban-type settlement (Sedovo), 9 selsovets, and 59 small settlements. Also included within the raion are 14 industrial organizations, 4 construction and transport organizations, 9 kolhozy, 5 sovhozy, 3 fisheries cooperatives (rybkolhozy), 5 industrial organizations, 4 construction companies, 35 medical schools, 27 resort areas, and 26 libraries.

Before the defeat of the Don Republic by the Red Army in 1920, the territory of the Novoazovsk Raion was part of the Taganrog Okrug of the Don Republic. In April of the same year, the territory as the Taganrog Raion was ceded to the newly organaized Donetsk Governorate.


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