Kalgansky District (russian: Калганский район) is an administrativeRegistry 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) t ...

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. It is located in the southeast of the

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and borders

Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District (russian: Нерчинско-Заводский райо́н) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the t ...

in the north,

Priargunsky District Priargunsky District (russian: Приаргунский 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 Zabaykalsk ...

in the south, and

Alexandrovo-Zavodsky District Alexandrovo-Zavodsky District (russian: Алекса́ндрово-Заво́дский райо́н) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one ...

in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of Kalga. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 8,771, with the population of Kalga accounting for 39.1% of that number.

History

The district was established on December 8, 1942.

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