Kusinsky District (russian: Кусинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-seven in
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...
,
Russia
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.
[Resolution #161] It is located in the northwest of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
} Its
administrative center
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is the
town
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Origin and use
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of
Kusa Kusa or KUSA may refer to:
* Kusa, Russia, a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
* Kusa, Latvia, a village in Madona District, Latvia
* Kusa, Oklahoma, United States
* Kusa, indigenous name of Beles River (in Gumuz language)
* Kusa, Afghanistan
...
.
Population: 32,738 (
2002 Census);
The population of Kusa accounts for 63.9% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast