Kansky District (russian: Ка́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3015 district (

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), one of the forty-three in

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai ( rus, Красноя́рский край, r=Krasnoyarskiy kray, p=krəsnɐˈjarskʲɪj ˈkraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third-largest city in Siber ...

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. It is located in the southeast of the

krai A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. Etymologically, the word is relate ...

and borders with Dzerzhinsky District in the north,

Abansky District Abansky District (russian: А́банский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2755 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders wit ...

in the northeast,

Ilansky District Ilansky District (russian: Ила́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2898 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders wit ...

in the east,

Irbeysky District Irbeysky District (russian: Ирбе́йский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3043 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders ...

in the south, Rybinsky District in the southwest, and with

Sukhobuzimsky District Sukhobuzimsky District (russian: Сухобу́зимский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3037 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai. Th ...

in the west. The area of the district is .Official website of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Information about Kansky District
Its

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is the

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Kansk Kansk (russian: Канск) is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on both banks of the Kan River. Population: History and economy Founded in 1628 as a Russian fort, it was transferred to its current location in 1636 and granted town st ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 28,667 ( 2002 Census);

Geography

The district is situated in the

Kan River The Kan (russian: Кан) river is a right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia. It is long and drains a basin of . Its valley forms the southern boundary of the Yenisey Range.

valley. The

tributaries A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage b ...

of the Kan flow through the district.

History

The district was founded on April 4, 1924.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kansky District is one of the forty-three in the krai. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a krai town—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Law #10-4763 The district is divided into fifteen

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

s. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kansky Municipal District and is divided into fifteen rural settlements (corresponding to the administrative district's selsoviets). The krai town of Kansk is incorporated separately from the district as Kansk Urban Okrug.Law #12-2372

Economy

A part of the Kansk-Achinsk

lignite Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35%, and is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat ...

basin, which in the early 1980s was developed into one of the largest coal areas of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, lies within the district's boundaries.

Transportation

The

Trans-Siberian Railway The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR; , , ) connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over , it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the ea ...

runs through district territory from west to east. A part of the

federal highway Federal Highways and Federal Routes can be found in: *Australia: Federal Highway *Brazil: Brazilian Federal Highway and Brazilian Highway System *Germany: ''Bundesstraßen'' *Malaysia: Federal Highway and Malaysian Federal Roads System *Mexico: ...

M53 passes through the district as well.

Notable people

Pyotr Slovtsov Pyotr Ivanovich Slovtsov (russian: Пётр Ива́нович Словцо́в; 30 June 1886 – 24 February 1934) was a famous Russian tenor. Early years Slovtsov was born in the village of Ustyanskoye in Yeniseysk Governorate of the Ru ...

, opera tenor

References

Notes

Sources

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External links

''Kanskiye vedomosti''
website of the local newspaper *Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture
List of Pyotr Slovtsov's discs

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