Ust-Koksinsky District (russian: Усть-Ко́ксинский райо́н; alt, Кӧк-Суу Оозы аймак, ''Kök-Suu Oozı aymak'') is an administrativeLaw #101-RZ and municipalLaw #10-RZ district (

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), one of the ten in the

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. It is located in the west and southwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of

Ust-Koksa Ust-Koksa (russian: Усть-Кокса, alt, Кӧк-Суу Оозы, ''Kök-Suu Oozı'') is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Ust-Koksinsky District of the Altai Republic, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian F ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 17,020, with the population of Ust-Koksa accounting for 25.7% of that number.

History

The district was established on October 19, 1923 as Uymonsky District ()''Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai'', p. 345 within Oirot Autonomous Oblast.''Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai'', p. 345 It was given its present name on April 10, 1933.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Ust-Koksinsky District is one of the ten in the

. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Ust-Koksinsky Municipal District. Both administrative and municipal districts are divided into the same nine rural settlements, comprising forty-two rural localities. The '' selo'' of

serves as the

of both the administrative and municipal districts.

Nature reserves

The district is home to two nature reserves: Katunsky State Natural Biosphere ReserveWild-Russia.org
Katunsky Zapovednik
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* * *Исполнительный комитет Алтайского краевого Совета народных депутатов. Архивный отдел. Государственный архив Алтайского края. "Справочник административно-территориальных изменений на Алтае, 1917–1980" (''Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai, 1917–1980''). Барнаул, Алтайское книжное издательство, 1987. {{Use mdy dates, date=January 2013 Districts of the Altai Republic States and territories established in 1923