Kuznetsky District (russian: Кузне́цкий райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #774-ZPO] and municipal
[Law #690-ZPO] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-seven in
Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast (russian: Пе́нзенская о́бласть, ''Penzenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Penza. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,386,186.
Geogr ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the east 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
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk (russian: Кузне́цк) is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the Truyov River. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Within Russia's framework of a ...
(which is not administratively a part of the district).
Population: 38,056 (
2010 Census);
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsky District is one of the
twenty-seven in the oblast.
The town of
Kuznetsk
Kuznetsk (russian: Кузне́цк) is a town in Penza Oblast, Russia, located in the foothills of the Volga Upland, mainly on the left bank of the Truyov River. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Within Russia's framework of a ...
serves as its
administrative center
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, despite being incorporated separately as a
town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kuznetsky Municipal District.
The town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated separately from the district as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.
Notable residents
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Viktor Ilyukhin (1949–2011), State Duma deputy, born in Sosnovka
*
Yevgeny Rodionov (1977–1996), Russian soldier captured and executed by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War, born in
Chibirley
References
Notes
Sources
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Districts of Penza Oblast