Berdyuzhsky District (russian: Бердю́жский райо́н) is an administrative district (

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), one of the twenty-two in

Tyumen Oblast Tyumen Oblast (russian: Тюме́нская о́бласть, ''Tyumenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Western Siberia region of Siberia, and is administratively part of the Urals ...

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.Law #53 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Berdyuzhsky Municipal District.Law #263 It is located in the south 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

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of Berdyuzhye. Population: 11,490 ( 2010 Census); The population of Berdyuzhye accounts for 44.9% of the district's total population.

Geography

Berdyuzhsky District is located in the south of Tyumen Oblast, on the border with

Kurgan Oblast Kurgan Oblast (russian: Курга́нская о́бласть, ''Kurganskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kurgan. In June 2014, the population was estimated to be 874,100,Kurgan ...

, and near the northern border of

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. The terrain is flat upland of forest-steppe landscape. There are a large number of lakes (256 by one count) in rounded depressions. The lakes are formed in elongated chains that follow the general course of ancient runoff to the northeast. A significant portion of the district is agricultural land. The district is on the eastern extent of the inter-river region of the drainages of the

Tobol River The Tobol (russian: Тобол, kk, Тобыл ''Tobyl'') is a river in Western Siberia (in Kazakhstan and Russia) and the main (left) tributary of the Irtysh. Its length is , and the area of its drainage basin is . History The Tobol River was ...

(to the west) and the

Ishim River The Ishim (russian: Иши́м, Ishim; kk, Есіл, Esil) is a river running through Kazakhstan and Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Its average discharge is . It is a left tributary of the Irtysh. The Ishim is partly naviga ...

(to the east). The administrative center is the town of Berdyuzhye. Berdyuzhsky District is 384 km east of the city of

Tyumen Tyumen ( ; rus, Тюмень, p=tʲʉˈmʲenʲ, a=Ru-Tyumen.ogg) is the administrative center and largest city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is situated just east of the Ural Mountains, along the Tura River. Fueled by the Russian oil and gas indu ...

, 50 km north of the city of

Petropavl Petropavl ( kk, Петропавл, Petropavl ) or Petropavlovsk () is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956. The city is also kno ...

, and 1,800 km east of

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. The area measures 75 km (north-south), 50 km (west-east); total area is 2,800 km2 (about 0.003% of Tyumen Oblast). The district is bordered on the north by

Golyshmanovsky District Golyshmanovsky District (russian: Голышма́новский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Tyumen Oblast, Russia.Law #53 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Golyshmanovsky Municipal ...

, on the east by

Kazansky District Kazansky District (russian: Каза́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Tyumen Oblast, Russia.Law #53 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kazansky Municipal District.Law #263 It i ...

, on the south by

Mokrousovsky District Mokrousovsky District (russian: Мокроусовский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #316 and municipalLaw #419 district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kurgan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area o ...

of Kurgan Oblast, and on the west by

Armizonsky District Armizonsky District (russian: Армизо́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Tyumen Oblast, Russia.Law #53 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Armizonsky Municipal District.Law # ...

History

Before joining to Russia as part of Siberia, the area was inhabited by Tatars and nomadic herders of southern Turkic peoples. The first mention of Russian settlement is the building of a string of military strongholds in the late 1600s. Agricultural settlement followed, mostly farmers from central Russia, and the area records the arrival of conscripts who had been involved in

Pugachev's Rebellion Pugachev's Rebellion (, ''Vosstaniye Pugachyova''; also called the Peasants' War 1773–1775 or Cossack Rebellion) of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine ...

in the late 1700s. 150 residents killed during the peasant uprising in the 1920s are buried in a mass grave in the central park of Berdyuzhye. Berdyuzhsky District was officially formed in July 1923 as part of the Ishimsky district of the Ural Region.

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