Blagoveshchensky District, Amur Oblast
District in Amur Oblast, Russia
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Blagoveshchensky District (Russian: Благове́щенский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 3,060 square kilometers (1,180 sq mi).[3] Its administrative center is the city of Blagoveshchensk[2] (which is not administratively a part of the district).[1] Population: 19,641 (2010 census);[4] 18,673 (2002 Census);[7] 18,192 (1989 Soviet census).[8]
Blagoveshchensky District
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Gribskov Reservoir | |
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 Location of Blagoveshchensky District in Amur Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 50°19′N 127°31′E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Amur Oblast[1] |
| Established | 1937 |
| Administrative center | Blagoveshchensk[2] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,060 km2 (1,180 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 19,641 |
| • Density | 6.42/km2 (16.6/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Administrative divisions | 11 Rural settlements |
| • Inhabited localities[5] | 27 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Blagoveshchensky Municipal District[5] |
| • Municipal divisions[5] | 0 urban settlements, 11 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+9 (MSK+6 [6]) |
| OKTMO ID | 10611000 |
| Website | http://www.blagraion.ru/ |
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Blagoveshchensky District is one of the twenty in the oblast.[1] The city of Blagoveshchensk serves as its administrative center,[2] despite being incorporated separately as an urban okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1]
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Blagoveshchensky Municipal District.[5] Blagoveshchensk Urban Okrug is incorporated separately from the district.[9]