Boikivske
Boikivske
Бойкiвське Тельманове Telmanove | |
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The road sign outside Telmanove, 2015 | |
| Coordinates: 47°24′45″N 38°01′05″E / 47.41250°N 38.01806°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
| Raion | Kalmiuske Raion |
| Hromada | Boikivske settlement hromada |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Government | |
| • Head of town council | Serhij Aleksejenko |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 4,219 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Boikivske (Ukrainian: Бойкiвське; Russian: Бойковское) or Telmanove (Ukrainian: Тельманове; Russian: Тельманово) is a rural settlement in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located in the industrial Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Its population is 4,219 (2022 estimate).
The settlement has its roots in the German colony of Ostheim, founded in the mid-1800s at the invitation of the government of the Russian Empire. The Soviet Union renamed the town to Telmanove in 1935 after KPD leader Ernst Thälmann. After World War II, the German population was expelled by the Soviet government and the village was repopulated by Boykos.
After becoming part of independent Ukraine in 1991. In August 2014 the town was taken over by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which aligns itself with the Russian federation. The town has seen the curtailing of religious freedom for minority faiths under the DPR administration. The Ukrainian parliament renamed Telmanove to Boikivske in 2016 as a part of Decommunization in Ukraine, though DPR and Russian authorities still use the old Soviet-era name.