Pryazhinsky District (russian: Пря́жинский райо́н; krl, Priäžän piiri) is an administrative 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 fifteen in the

Republic of Karelia The Republic of Karelia (russian: Респу́блика Каре́лия, Respublika Kareliya; ; krl, Karjalan tašavalta; ; fi, Karjalan tasavalta; vep, Karjalan Tazovaldkund, Ludic: ''Kard’alan tazavald''), also known as just Karelia (rus ...

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.Constitution of the Republic of Karelia It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is . 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 A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

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

Pryazha Pryazha (russian: Пря́жа; krl, Priäžä; fi, Prääsä) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Pryazhinsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located from the Shuya River and west o ...

.Law #871-ZRK As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 14,664, with the population of Pryazha accounting for 25.1% of that number.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Pryazhinsky District is one of the fifteen in the

and has administrative jurisdiction over one

(

) and eighty-one rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Pryazhinsky Municipal District.Law #825-ZRK The urban-type settlement of Pryazha and three rural localities are incorporated into an urban settlement, while the remaining seventy-eight rural localities are incorporated into six rural settlements within the municipal district.Law #813-ZRK The urban-type settlement of Pryazha serves as the

of both the administrative and municipal district.

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