Chernyshevsky District (russian: Черныше́вский райо́н) is an administrative''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities'' and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (

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), one of the

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Zabaykalsky Krai Zabaykalsky Krai ( rus, Забайкальский край, r=Zabaikal'skii krai, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲskʲɪj kraj, lit. " Transbaikal krai"; bua, Yбэр Байгалай хизаар, Uber Baigalai Xizaar) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai ...

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. It is located in the center of the

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and borders

Tungokochensky District Tungokochensky District (russian: Тунгокоченский райо́н) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zaba ...

in the north, Sretensky District in the east, District in the south, and

Nerchinsky District Nerchinsky District (russian: Нерчинский райо́н) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Kr ...

in the west. The area of the district is .Энциклопедия Забайкалья (''Encyclopedia of Trans-Baikal]
Entry on Chernyshevsky District
Its

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is the urban locality (an

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) of Chernyshevsk. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 35,019, with the population of Chernyshevsk accounting for 38.2% of that number.

History

The district was established on January 4, 1926 by merging

Chernyshevskaya Chernyshevskaya (russian: Черныше́вская) is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on September 1, 1958. It is a deep underground pylon station at depth with a short central hall. The station is ...

, Kalininskaya, and Zyulzinskaya Volosts of

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. It was abolished and split between Mogochinsky, Nerchinsky, and

Shilkinsky District Shilkinsky District (russian: Шилкинский райо́н) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai ...

s in February 1963, but reinstated in modern borders in January 1965.

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