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This article is about the administrative district in Ukraine. For the territorial controversy, see Hertza region.

Hertsaivskyi Raion Герцаївський район Raionul Herţa
General data
Country:	Ukraine
Oblast:	Chernivtsi Oblast
Established:	pre-1962, 1991
Area:	308.7 km²
Population: — Total: — Density	32,300 N/A p/km²
Area code:	380-XXXX
Postal index:	N/A
Administrative subdivisions
Center:	Hertsa
Cities:	1
Towns:	0
Villages:	23
Official information
Governor:	Vasyl' Mykhailovych Skrypa
Website:	Official website

Hertsaivskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Герцаївський район, translit.: Hertsaiivs'kyi raion; Romanian: Raionul Herţa) is an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in south-western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. The region has an area of 350 km² and centers on the city of Hertsa, which derives its name from the German "Herzog" meaning "duke."

Contents 1 History 2 Demographics 3 Localities 4 See also 5 External links

The region was part of the Principality of Moldavia since its founding in the 14th century and after the union of Moldavia with Wallachia in 1859 it became part of Romania, which gained its formal independence in 1877.

Hertza region was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and was added to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was recaptured by Romania in 1941 in the course of Axis attack on the Soviet Union in the Second World War but was recaptured by the Soviet Army in 1944. The annexation was confirmed by the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947.

The fact that neither the secret protocol (appendix) of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which specified the expansionist claims of both sides, nor the June 1940 Soviet Ultimatum demanding from Romania the adjacent territory of Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia included Hertsa makes the capture by the Soviets especially controversial . Furthermore, unlike Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, the region had not been a part of Imperial Russia or Austria-Hungary before World War I, but had been a part of Romania and one of its predecessor states, Moldavia, before that.

In 1962, the region was merged into the Hlybotskyi Raion and in 1991, was reinstated again.

In 1930, the region had a population of 30,082, of which 27,919 (92.8%) Romanians, 1,931 (6.4%) Jews and 232 (0.8%) people of other ethnicities.

In 2001, the population of Hertsaivskyi Raion was 32,316, of which 91.4% Romanians, 5.0% Ukrainians, 2.3% Moldovans, 0.9% Russians and 0.3% of other ethnicities (see: Ukrainian Census, 2001).

The following localities are found in Hertsaivskyi Raion (Romanian names listed in brackets):

Bairaky Bancheny (Bănceni) Bukіvka Velyka Buda (Buda) Velykosіllia (Satu Mare) Hertsa (Herţa) Hodynіvka (Godâneşti) Horbova (Horbova) Diakіvtsі Krupianske Kulykіvka (Culiceni)

Lukovytsia (Lucoviţa) Lunka (Lunca) Mala Buda (Buda Mică) Mohylіvka (Movila) Molnytsia (Molniţa) Ostrytsia (Stârceşti) Petrashіvka Pіdval'ne Ternavka (Târnauca) Khriatska (Hreaţca) Tsuren

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Chernivtsi Oblast
• Romanians of Chernivtsi Oblast

	Administrative divisions of Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
	Raions: Hertsaivskyi | Hlybotskyi | Kelmenetskyi | Khotynskyi | Kitsmanskyi | Novoselytskyi | Putylskyi | Sokyrianskyi | Storozhynetskyi | Vyzhnytskyi | Zastavnivskyi
	Cities: Chernivtsi | Hertsa | Khotyn | Kitsman | Novodnistrovsk | Novoselytsia | Sokyriany | Vashkivtsi | Vyzhnytsia | Zastavna
	Urban-type settlements: Berehomet | Hlyboka | Kelmenetsi | Kostryzhivka | Krasnoilsk | Luzhany | Nepolokivtsi | Putyla | Storozhynets | more...
	Villages: Bila Krynytsya | Boiany | Chornivka | Voloka | more...