Kuvandyksky Urban Okrug (russian: Куванды́кский городско́й о́круг) is a municipal formation (an urban okrug) in

Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast (russian: Оренбургская область, ''Orenburgskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name ''Chkalov Oblast'' () ...

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, one of the thirteen urban okrugs in 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 Kingdom of ...

.Law #2367/495-IV-OZ Its territory comprises the territories of two

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of Orenburg Oblast—

Kuvandyksky District Kuvandyksky District (russian: Куванды́кский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia.Law #1370/276-IV-OZ The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the tow ...

and the

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of Kuvandyk.Resolution #4-pLaw #3029/834-V-OZ It was established on May 1, 2015 by the Law #3029/834-V-OZ of Orenburg Oblast by merging the municipal formations of former Kuvandyksky Municipal District and granting the resulting entity urban okrug status.

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* * * Urban okrugs of Russia States and territories established in 2015 2015 establishments in Russia __NOTOC__