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Balakhtinsky District

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Coat of arms
  
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Federal subject
  
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Selsoviets
  
12

Founded
  
4 April 1924

Country
  
Russia

Urban-type settlements
  
1

Area
  
10,250 km²

Balakhtinsky District

Administrative center
  
urban-type settlement of Balakhta

Balakhtinsky District (Russian: Балахти́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders with Kozulsky and Yemelyanovsky Districts in the north, Beryozovsky District in the northeast, Mansky District in the east, Kuraginsky District in the southeast, Idrinsky, Krasnoturansky, and Novosyolovsky Districts in the south, Uzhursky District in the west, and with Nazarovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 10,250 square kilometers (3,960 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Balakhta. Population: 21,000 (2010 Census); 25,518 (2002 Census); 28,572 (1989 Census). The population of Balakhta accounts for 35.3% of the district's total population.

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Map of Balakhtinsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

Geography

The district is situated in the valley between the Chulym and Yenisei Rivers.

History

The district was founded on April 4, 1924.

Government

As of 2013, the Head of the district is Nikolay M. Yurtayev.

Demographics

As of the 2002 Census, the ethnic composition of the population was as follows:

  • Russians: 86.4%
  • Germans: 6.3%
  • Chuvash: 1.8%
  • Ukrainians: 1.4%
  • Mordvins: 0.7%
  • Belarusians: 0.6%
  • Tatars: 0.5%
  • Khakas: 0.1%
  • The rate of the natural decline of the district population was 4.3 persons per 1,000 in 2009, which is in sharp contrast to the krai's average increase of 0.2 persons per 1,000.

    References

    Balakhtinsky District Wikipedia