Smolensky District, Altai Krai
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Smolensky District (russian: Смоле́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #126-ZS 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 fifty-nine in
Altai Krai Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...
,
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. It is located in the southeast 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 . Its
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is the
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(a '' selo'') of Smolenskoye. Population: The population of Smolenskoye accounts for 37.5% of the district's total population.


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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=January 2013 Districts of Altai Krai