Reni Raion

Reniyskyi Raion
Ренійський район
Raionul Reni
Raion
Flag of Reniyskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Reniyskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 45°24′13″N 28°29′40″E / 45.40361°N 28.49444°E / 45.40361; 28.49444
Country Ukraine
RegionOdesa Oblast
Established1969
Disestablished18 July 2020
Admin. centerReni
Subdivisions
List
  •   1 — city councils
  •   0 — settlement councils
  • 7 — rural councils

  • Number of localities:
      1 — cities
  •   0 — urban-type settlements
  • 7 — villages
  •   0 — rural settlements
Government
 • GovernorOleksandr Soshenko
Area
 • Total861 km2 (332 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • TotalDecrease 36,117
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal index
68800—68831
Area code+380 4840

Reni Raion (Ukrainian: Ренійський район; Romanian: Raionul Reni) was a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine, in the historic Budjak region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center was the city of Reni. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Reni Raion was merged into Izmail Raion, but the Reni urban hromada has the same territory as the old Reni Raion.[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 36,117 (2020 est.).[3] In 2001, population was 40,680.

The raion was predominantly Moldovan and the Ukrainian language was rare. The raion of Reni, in its boundaries at that time, including the city of Reni, had 40,680 inhabitants in 2001, including 19,938 self-identified Moldovans (49.01%), 7,196 ethnic Ukrainians (17.69%), 6,136 ethnic Russians (15.08%), 3,439 Bulgarians (8.45%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 36 self-identified Romanians (0.09%).[4][5] The inhabitants of the former Reni Raion, which are identical to those of the current Reni urban hromada, were 37.88% Russian-speaking, 40.9% Romanian-speaking, 7.26% Ukrainian-speaking, 6.76% Gagauz-speaking and 6.61% Bulgarian-speaking.[6][7] Most of villages (five) are Romanophone/Romanian-speaking, while there was one village populated mostly by ethnic Gagauz and another one was populated mostly by ethnic Bulgarians.[8] The city of Reni had 20,761 inhabitants in 2001, including 6,694 ethnic Ukrainians (32.24%), 6,126 self-identified Moldovans (29.5%), 5,589 ethnic Russians (26.92%), 1,012 Bulgarians (4.87%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 22 self-identified Romanians (0.11%).[9] The city of Reni was mostly (70.54%) Russophone, 13.37% Romanian-speaking, 12.5% Ukrainian-speaking, 1.52% Gagauz-speaking and 1.33% Bulgarian-speaking.[10] Most (69.41%) of the rural population of the raion was Romanian-speaking in 2001.[11] In 2001, this was one of two of Ukraine's raions (the other one is Novoselytsia Raion in Chernivtsi Oblast) in which those having a Moldovan identity are the largest demographic group.[12][13] It was also one of the three raions of Ukraine in which the Romanian language predominated; the other ones were mostly Romanian-speaking Hertsa Raion and Novoselytsia Raion.[14][15]

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one hromada,[16] Reni urban hromada with the administration in Reni.

  1. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 2001 All Ukrainian population census results for Odesa Region Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  6. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raions
  7. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
  8. ^ Monica, Kaneff, Deema Heintz. Guest Editors' Note: Bessarabian Borderlands: One Region, Two States, Multiple Ethnicities. IUScholarWorks. OCLC 945629435.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  10. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/
  11. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  12. ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 259.
  13. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm
  14. ^ Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 259, 261.
  15. ^ The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raions
  16. ^ "Ренійська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.