Yelizovsky District (russian: Ели́зовский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #46 and municipalLaw #255 district (

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) of

Kamchatka Krai Kamchatka Krai ( rus, Камча́тский край, r=Kamchatsky kray, p=kɐmˈtɕatskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), situated in the Russian Far East, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Its ...

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, one of the

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in the

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. It is located in the south of the krai. The area of the district is .Russian Federal Statistics Service
Kamchatka Krai
(select Yelizovsky District in the drop-down menus) Its

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is the

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Yelizovo Yelizovo (russian: Е́лизово) is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Avacha River northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: History Founded in 1848 as the '' selo'' of Stary Ostrog (), it was renamed Zavoyko () in 1 ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 24,566.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yelizovsky District is one of the

in the krai. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town under krai jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Yelizovsky Municipal District, with Yelizovo Town Under Krai Jurisdiction being incorporated within it as Yelizovskoye Urban Settlement.

Subdivisions

Demographics

Ethnic composition (2010): *

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– 89.3% *

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– 3.5% *

Koreans Koreans ( South Korean: , , North Korean: , ; see names of Korea) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Korean Peninsula. Koreans mainly live in the two Korean nation states: North Korea and South Korea (collectively and simply refe ...

– 1.1% *

Tatars The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

– 0.7% * Others – 5.4%

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Kamchatka Krai States and territories established in 1949 __NOTOC__