Chernsky District (russian: Че́рнский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-three in
Tula Oblast
Tula Oblast (russian: Ту́льская о́бласть, ''Tulskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographically in the European Russia region of the country and is p ...
,
Russia
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.
[Law #954-ZTO] As a
municipal division, it is incorporated as Chernsky Municipal District.
[Law #546-ZTO] It is located in the southwest of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geom ...
.
Population: 20,476 (
2010 Census);
The population of Chern accounts for 31.3% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Tula Oblast