Glazunovsky District (russian: Глазуновский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #522-OZ] and municipal
[Law #431-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-four in
Oryol Oblast
Oryol Oblast (russian: Орло́вская о́бласть, ''Orlovskaya oblast''), also known as Orlovshchina (russian: Орловщина) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is th ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the south of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) of
Glazunovka.
Population: 13,162 (
2010 Census);
The population of Glazunovka accounts for 45.1% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Oryol Oblast