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Sredneakhtubinsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Towns of district significance
  
1

Selsoviets
  
9

Federal subject
  
Volgograd Oblast

Urban-type settlements
  
1

Area
  
1,957 km²

Sredneakhtubinsky District

Administrative center
  
work settlement of Srednyaya Akhtuba

Sredneakhtubinsky District (Russian: Среднеахту́бинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Sredneakhtubinsky Municipal District. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,039 square kilometers (787 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Srednyaya Akhtuba. Population: 58,962 (2010 Census); 55,341 (2002 Census); 48,555 (1989 Census). The population of Srednyaya Akhtuba accounts for 24.5% of the district's total population.

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Map of Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Administrative and municipal divisions

As an administrative division, the district is divided into one town of district significance (Krasnoslobodsk), one urban-type settlement (Srednyaya Akhtuba), and nine selsoviets. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sredneakhtubinsky Municipal District and is divided into two urban and ten rural settlements. Until April 2012, the municipal district included all of the inhabited localities of the administrative district, with the exception of one rural locality (the settlement of Uralsky), which was municipally a part of Volzhsky Urban Okrug. In April 2012, the settlement of Uralsky was merged into the city of Volzhsky.

References

Sredneakhtubinsky District Wikipedia