Kunashaksky District (russian: Кунашакский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

.Resolution #161 It is located in the northeast of the

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdo ...

. The area of the district is . Its

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

is the

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(a '' selo'') of Kunashak. Population: 32,225 ( 2002 Census); The population of Kunashak accounts for 20.9% of the district's total population. The district was part of the Bashkir Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic until January 1934, and together with neighboring

Argayashsky District Argayashsky District (russian: Аргая́шский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.Resolution #161 It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of th ...

, formed the exclave Argayash Canton. The two districts were added to Chelyabinsk Oblast as the

Argayash National Okrug The Argayash National Okrug (russian: Аргая́шский национа́льный о́круг '; ba, Арғаяш милли округы ''Arğayaş milli okrugı''; Bashkir ) was a national ''okrug'' for the Bashkirs of the Chelyabinsk ...

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