Telmanove
Telmanove is an urban settlement in Donetsk Oblast, located in the industrial region of the Donets Basin. Ukraine uses the name Boykivske, since in 2016 the settlement was renamed by the Verkhovna Rada. Until 1935 it was known as Ostheim and then renamed after the German Communist Ernst Thälmann. It is an administrative seat of the Telmanove Raion. Population:
After elimination of all Germans from the territory during World War II, the village was resettled by Boykos deported from territories that were transferred by Soviet Union to Poland in 1951.
Telmanove is as of 2017 controlled by pro-Russian separatists, who seized the town backed by Russian military forces in August 2014 as part of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
