Alexeyevsky District (russian: Алексе́евский райо́н) is an administrative district (

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

), one of the

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Belgorod Oblast Belgorod Oblast (russian: Белгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Belgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: History At the turn of the 17th cent ...

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.Law #248 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Alexeyevsky Municipal District.Law #159 It is located in the east of the

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...

. The area of the district is . Its

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

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 Alexeyevka (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 27,493 ( 2002 Census);

Geography

Alexeyevsky District sits on the eastern edge of Belgorod Oblast, on the border with

Voronezh Oblast Voronezh Oblast (russian: Воронежская область, Voronezhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Voronezh. Its population was 2,308,792 as of the 2021 Census. Geography V ...

. It is bordered on the south by

Veydelevsky District Veydelevsky District (russian: Ве́йделевский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.Law #248 Municipally, it is incorporated as Veydelevsky Municipal District.Law #159 It ...

and Roveskoy District, on the west by Krasnogvardeysky District, on the north by

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, and on the east by three districts in Voronezh Oblast:

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, and

Ostrogozhsky District Ostrogozhsky District (russian: Острого́жский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #87-OZ and municipalLaw #88-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Voronezh Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area ...

. The administrative center of the district is the town of Alexeyevka, which occupies in the north-central region of the district (of which the town itself is not part). the district is east of the city of

Belgorod Belgorod ( rus, Белгород, p=ˈbʲeɫɡərət) is a city and the administrative center of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Seversky Donets River north of the border with Ukraine. Population: Demographics The population of Be ...

. The terrain is steppe and hilly plain; the district lies on the southeast edge of the

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. The two main rivers through the district are the

Tikhaya Sosna River Tikhaya Sosna (russian: Ти́хая Сосна́) is a river in Belgorod and Voronezh oblasts of Russia. It is a right tributary of the river Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .Don River The Don ( rus, Дон, p=don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire. Its ...

basin, and the Chyornaya Kalitva River, another right tributary of the Don. Because it is in Central Black Earth area, Alexeyevsky has soil and climate suited to agriculture.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Alexeyevsky District is one of the

in the oblast. The town of Alexeyevka serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Alexeyevsky Municipal District, with the town of oblast significance of Alexeyevka being incorporated within it as Alexeyevka Urban Settlement.

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External links

Alexeyevsky District on Google Maps

Alexeyevsk District on OpenStreetMap.org
{{Authority control __NOTOC__ Districts of Belgorod Oblast