Yuryevetsky District (russian: Ю́рьевецкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the

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Ivanovo Oblast Ivanovo Oblast (russian: Ива́новская о́бласть, ''Ivanovskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest cities are Ivanovo (the ...

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.Law #145-OZ It is located in the east of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Yuryevets Yuryevets (russian: Юрьевец) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities Urban localities *Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast, a town in Yuryevetsky District of Ivanovo Oblast Rural localities * Yuryevets, Dzerzhinsk, ...

. Population: 19,366 ( 2002 Census); The population of Yuryevets accounts for 64.9% of the district's total population.

Administrative and municipal status

The town of

serves as the

of the district. Prior to the adoption of the Law #145-OZ ''On the Administrative-Territorial Division of Ivanovo Oblast'' in December 2010, it was administratively incorporated separately from the district. Municipally, Yuryevets is incorporated within Yuryevetsky Municipal District as Yuryevetskoye Urban Settlement.Law #54-OZ

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=July 2015 Districts of Ivanovo Oblast __NOTOC__