Kursky District (russian: Ку́рский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (

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), one of the twenty-eight in

Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast ( rus, Курская область, r=Kurskaya oblast, p=ˈkurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

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. It is located in the center of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 56,494 ( 2002 Census);

Geography

Seym valley, Kursky District, Kursk Oblast

Kursky District is located in the center of Kursk Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the

Central Russian Upland The Central Russian Upland (also Central Upland and East European Upland) is an upland area of the East European Plain and is an undulating plateau with an average elevation of . Its highest peak is measured at . The southeastern portion of the u ...

. The main river in the district is the

Seym River The Seim (also transcribed as Seym and Sejm, in ; ) is a west-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. Its length is (250 km within Ukraine) and its basin area about . It is the largest tributary of the Desna. Places on the river are: Kursk, Kurch ...

, which flows east to west through the district, joining the

Desna River The Desna (russian: Десна́; uk, Десна) is a river in Russia and Ukraine, a major left-tributary of the Dnieper. Its name means "right hand" in the Old East Slavic language. It has a length of , and its drainage basin covers .

and eventually the

Dnieper River } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...

in Ukraine. The district surrounds the city of

, which is the administrative center of Kursky District, but not part of it. The district is 430 km southwest of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. The area measures 40 km (north-south), and 50 km (west-east). The district is bordered on the north by Zolotukhinsky District, on the east by

Shchigrovsky District Shchigrovsky District (russian: Щигро́вский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast An ob ...

, on the south by

Medvensky District Medvensky District (russian: Ме́двенский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the ob ...

, and on the west by Oktyabrsky District.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kursky District is one of the twenty-eight in the oblast. The city of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kursky Municipal District. The city of oblast significance of Kursk is incorporated separately from the district as Kursk Urban Okrug.

Administrative division of the district

The district is divided into 17 administrative units (selsoviets): There are 191 rural localities within the district, including 4 unpopulated ones:

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External links

Kursky District on Google MapsKursky District on OpenStreetMap
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