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Country
  
Administrative center
  
town of Kotelnich

Rural localities
  
250

Founded
  
1929

Federal subject
  
rural okrug
  
20

Area
  
3,979 km²

Kotelnichsky District

Municipally incorporated as
  
Kotelnichsky Municipal District

Kotelnichsky District (Russian: Коте́льничский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-nine in Kirov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 3,940 square kilometers (1,520 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kotelnich (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 15,799; (2010 Census) 20,507 (2002 Census); 27,712 (1989 Census).

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Map of Kotelnichsky District, Kirovskaya Oblast, Russia

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kotelnichsky District is one of the thirty-nine in the oblast. The town of Kotelnich serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kotelnichsky Municipal District. The Town of Kotelnich is incorporated separately from the district as Kotelnich Urban Okrug.

Economy and transportation

The Otvorskoye and Gorokhovskoye peat narrow gauge railways for hauling peat operate in the district.

References

Kotelnichsky District Wikipedia


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