Klintsovsky District (russian: Клинцо́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #13-Z and municipalLaw #3-Z district (

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), one of the twenty-seven in

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. It is located in the west of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Klintsy Klintsy (russian: Клинцы́) is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia,located on the Turosna River, southwest of Bryansk. Population: 60,000 (1972). Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kl ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district).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. Population: 23,581 ( 2002 Census);

Ecological problems

As a result of the

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on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with

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(mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km², representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Klintsovsky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as an urban administrative okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Klintsovsky Municipal District. Klintsy Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated separately from the district as Klintsy Urban Okrug.

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