Pogranichny District (russian: Пограни́чный райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #161-KZ] and municipal
[Law #184-KZ] 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-two in
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the southwest of the
krai
A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR.
Etymologically, the word is relate ...
. The area of the district is .
(Official website of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. ''Municipal Formations of Primorsky Krai'') 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
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is the
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) of
Pogranichny
Pogranichny (russian: Пограни́чный; masculine), Pogranichnaya (; feminine), or Pogranichnoye (; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
* Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai, an urban-type settlement ...
.
Population: The population of the administrative center accounts for 43.8% of the district's total population.
History
The district was established in 1926.
Notable residents
*
Ruslan Gordiyenko
Ruslan Yevgenyevich Gordiyenko (russian: Руслан Евгеньевич Гордиенко; born 17 February 1995) is a Russian football player.
Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Luch-Energiya Vlad ...
(born 1995 in
Pogranichny
Pogranichny (russian: Пограни́чный; masculine), Pogranichnaya (; feminine), or Pogranichnoye (; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
* Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai, an urban-type settlement ...
), football player
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Districts of Primorsky Krai
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