Dyatkovsky District (russian: Дя́тьковский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #13-Z] and municipal
[Law #3-Z] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-seven in
Bryansk Oblast
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,
Russia
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. It is located in the north of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Dyatkovo
Dyatkovo (russian: Дя́тьково, ) is a town and the administrative center of Dyatkovsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Population:
History
It was first mentioned in 1626, but it mostly stagnated until 1785, when after the death of ...
.
Population: 45,773 (
2002 Census);
The population of Dyatkovo accounts for 45.9% of the district's total population.
Administrative and municipal divisions
As an
administrative division
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, the district is divided into five
rural administrative okrugs, four
settlement administrative okrugs, and one
urban administrative okrug (
Dyatkovsky).
[Law #69-Z stipulates that the borders of the administrative divisions match those of the corresponding municipal divisions. Law #3-Z contains the lists of the inhabited localities for each municipal division.] Within the
framework of municipal divisions, the rural administrative okrugs are incorporated into five rural settlements, while the settlement administrative okrugs and the urban administrative okrug are incorporated into five urban settlements.
Until January 2013,
Fokino was incorporated as a
town of district significance
Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...
within Dyatkovsky District and, within the framework of municipal formations, it was incorporated separately from the district as Fokino Urban Okrug. After January 2013, it is both administratively and municipally separate from the district.
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Districts of Bryansk Oblast
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