Sredneakhtubinsky District (russian: Среднеахту́бинский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
thirty-three in
Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region, Volga region of Southern Russia. Its adminis ...
,
Russia
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.
[Law #139-OD] As a
municipal division, it is incorporated as Sredneakhtubinsky Municipal District.
[Law #1040-OD] It is located in the southeast of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Srednyaya Akhtuba.
Population: 55,341 (
2002 Census);
The population of Srednyaya Akhtuba accounts for 24.5% of the district's total population.
Administrative and municipal divisions
As an
administrative division
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, the district is divided into one
town of district significance
Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...
(
Krasnoslobodsk), one
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 ...
(
Srednyaya Akhtuba), and nine
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
s.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sredneakhtubinsky Municipal District and is divided into two urban and ten rural settlements.
Until April 2012, the municipal district included all of the inhabited localities of the administrative district, with the exception of one rural locality (the settlement of
Uralsky), which was municipally a part of
Volzhsky Urban Okrug.
In April 2012, the settlement of Uralsky was merged into the city of Volzhsky.
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Districts of Volgograd Oblast
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