Ust-Kutsky District (russian: Усть-Ку́тский райо́н) is an administrative district, one of the thirty-three in

Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...

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.Charter of Irkutsk Oblast, Article 13 Municipally, it is incorporated as Ust-Kutsky Municipal District.Law #93-oz It is located in the center of the

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. Its

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is the

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Ust-Kut Ust-Kut (russian: Усть-Кут) is a town and the administrative center of Ust-Kutsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located from Irkutsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Located on a western loop of the Lena River, the town s ...

.Law #49-OZ As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district (excluding the administrative center) was 8,416.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Ust-Kutsky District is one of the thirty-three in the oblast. The

serves as its

.Law #49-OZ As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Ust-Kutsky Municipal District.

Geography

The district is located in the

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area. The

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and

Tayura The Tayura (russian: Таюра) is a river in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is a tributary of the Lena with a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river is crossed by the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the interregional highway 25K-258 Ust-Kut ...

, tributaries of the

Lena River The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean ...

, flow across it.

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The area of the district is .

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Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Formations of Irkutsk Oblast
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