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Coat of arms
  
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Federal subject
  
Orenburg Oblast

Selsoviets
  
16

Area
  
2,891 km²

Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
selo of Pleshanovo

Rural localities
  
59

Founded
  
1966

Krasnogvardeysky District, Orenburg Oblast

Krasnogvardeysky District (Russian: Красногварде́йский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,800 square kilometers (1,100 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Pleshanovo. Population: 21,097 (2010 Census). The population of Pleshanovo accounts for 16.5% of the district's total population.

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Map of Krasnogvardeysky District, Orenburg Oblast, Russia

Demographics

Population: 21,097 (2010 Census); 25,451 (2002 Census); 27,776 (1989 Census).

The ethnic composition of the population is as follows:

  • Russians: 54.0%
  • Bashkirs: 25.7%
  • Tatars: 6.8%
  • Germans: 4.3%
  • Ukrainians: 4.1%

    • Notable people

  • Gabdulla Amantay was a Bashkir poet, writer and playwright. The village where he was born, is in that area today.

    • References

    Krasnogvardeysky District, Orenburg Oblast Wikipedia
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