20th century The raion was originally formed as
Ostheim Raion in late 1934, with Ostheim (now
Boikivske) as its center. In 1935, the raion was renamed Telmanove Raion after the German Communist leader
Ernst Thälmann. As the result of the
1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange, the Soviet authorities deported and resettled approximately 400 families of
Boykos from the village of Chorna (today
Czarna in
Poland), the former
Nyzhni Ustryky Raion of
Drohobych Oblast that was transferred to Poland.
21st century In 2014, the pro-Russian militant group known as the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) seized almost all of Telmanove Raion, along with other parts of
Donetsk Oblast and
Luhansk Oblast, beginning the
war in Donbas. On 9 December 2014, the
Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, moved the raion's administration and headquarters to
Myrne, a town in Telmanove Raion which remained under government control. The boundaries of Telmanove Raion were also adjusted, changing its total area to . In 2016, Ukraine's national parliament, the
Verkhovna Rada, renamed Telmanove Raion to
Boikivske Raion and Telmanove to
Boikivske. The town's name change was done in commemoration of the
Boykos people who were deported there in the 1950s. The raion was officially abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donetsk Oblast to eight. The area of Boikivske Raion was merged into the newly created
Kalmiuske Raion. The DPR has continued using the raion - as "Telmanove Raion" - as one of its administrative units. ==Geography==