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Chernyakhovsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
town of Chernyakhovsk

Rural okrugs
  
3

Area
  
1,286 km²

Federal subject
  
Kaliningrad Oblast

Towns of district significance
  
1

Cities/towns
  
1

Founded
  
1946

Chernyakhovsky District

Chernyakhovsky District (Russian: Черняховский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Chernyakhovsky Municipal District. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,285.75 square kilometers (496.43 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Chernyakhovsk. Population: 51,936 (2010 Census); 57,521 (2002 Census); 12,806 (1989 Census). The population of Chernyakhovsk accounts for 77.9% of the district's total population.

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Map of Chernyakhovsky District, Kaliningradskaya Oblast, Russia

Transportation

The main railway line from Kaliningrad to Moscow passes through the district; there are two more railway lines from Chernyakhovsk to Zheleznodorozhny and from Chernyakhovsk to Sovetsk. The main road from Kaliningrad to Moscow via Lithuania also passes through the district.

References

Chernyakhovsky District Wikipedia