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Shimanovsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
town of Shimanovsk

Rural localities
  
25

Founded
  
1939

Federal subject
  
Amur Oblast

Rural settlements
  
12

Area
  
14,600 km²

Shimanovsky District

Municipally incorporated as
  
Shimanovsky Municipal District

Shimanovsky District (Russian: Шимановский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 14,554 square kilometers (5,619 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Shimanovsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 5,956 (2010 Census); 7,275 (2002 Census); 8,588 (1989 Census).

Contents

Map of Shimanovsky District, Amur Oblast, Russia

History

The district was established in 1939.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Shimanovsky District is one of the twenty in the oblast. The town of Shimanovsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as an urban okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Shimanovsky Municipal District. Shimanovsk Urban Okrug is incorporated separately from the district.

References

Shimanovsky District Wikipedia