Krasnogorsky District (russian: Красного́рский 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
Bryansk Oblast (russian: Бря́нская о́бласть, ''Bryanskaya oblast''), also known as Bryanshchina (russian: Брянщина, ) 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 west of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Krasnaya Gora.
Population: 16,863 (
2002 Census);
The population of Krasnaya Gora accounts for 53.7% of the district's total population.
Ecological problems
As a result of the
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...
on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with
radionuclides
A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess nuclear energy, making it unstable. This excess energy can be used in one of three ways: emitted from the nucleus as gamma radiation; transfer ...
(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/km
2, representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.
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Districts of Bryansk Oblast