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Serafimovichsky District
Serafimovichsky District (russian: Серафимо́вичский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.Law #139-OD As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Serafimovichsky Municipal District.Law #979-OD It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ... of Serafimovich. Population: 27,137 ( 2002 Census); The population of Serafimovich accounts for 36.9% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Districts of Volgograd Oblast ...
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Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region, Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The population of the oblast was 2,610,161 in the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census. Formerly known as Stalingrad Oblast, it was given its present name in 1961, when the city of Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization. Volgograd Oblast borders Rostov Oblast in the southwest, Voronezh Oblast in the northwest, Saratov Oblast in the north, Astrakhan Oblast and the Republic of Kalmykia in the southeast, and has an Kazakhstan–Russia border, international border with Kazakhstan in the east. The two main rivers in European Russia, the Don River (Russia), Don and the Volga River, Volga, run through the oblast and are connected by the Volga–Don Canal. Volgograd Oblast's strategic waterway ...
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Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass their own laws establishing the system of the administrative-territorial divisions on their territories. While currently there are certain peculiarities to classifications used in many federal subjects, they are all still largely ba ...
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Serafimovich (town)
Serafimovich (russian: Серафимо́вич) is a town and the administrative center of Serafimovichsky District in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Don River, northwest of Volgograd, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded in 1589 as the ''stanitsa'' of Ust-Medveditskaya (). In 1933, it was granted town status and renamed Serafimovich after the writer Alexander Serafimovich, who was born and lived here. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, Serafimovich serves as the administrative center of Serafimovichsky District Serafimovichsky District (russian: Серафимо́вичский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.Law #139-OD As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Serafimovichsk .... As an administrative division, it is incorporated w ...
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