Spas-Demensky District (russian: Спас-Де́менский райо́н) is an administrative
[Charter of Kaluga Oblast, Article 4] and municipal
[Law #354-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-four in
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast (russian: Калу́жская о́бласть, translit=Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. The 2021 Russian Census found a population of 1,069,904.
G ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the west 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
Spas-Demensk
Spas-Demensk (russian: Спас-Де́менскА. М. Прохоров. "Большой энциклопедический словарь". Москва, 1997, p. 1135.) is a town and the administrative center of Spas-Demensky District in ...
.
As of the
2021 Census, the total population of the district was 7,369, with the population of Spas-Demensk accounting for 62.0% of that number.
History
The district was established in 1929 within
Sukhinichi Okrug
Sukhinichi (russian: Сухи́ничи) is a town and the administrative center of Sukhinichsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, a large railway junction on the Moscow – Kyiv line, situated on the Bryn River southwest of Kaluga, the admin ...
of
Western Oblast
Western Oblast (russian: Западная область, ''Zapadnaya oblast'') was an ''oblast'' (a first-level administrative and municipal unit) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1929 to 1937. Its seat was in the city ...
from a part of former
Mosalsky Uyezd Mosalsky Uyezd (''Моса́льский уе́зд '') was one of the subdivisions of the Kaluga Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the western part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Mosalsk.
Demographics
At the ...
.
[Official website of Spas-Demensky District]
History
It became a part of
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga Oblast (russian: Калу́жская о́бласть, translit=Kaluzhskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kaluga. The 2021 Russian Census found a population of 1,069,904.
G ...
on July 5, 1944.
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Districts of Kaluga Oblast
States and territories established in 1929
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