Yuzhsky District (russian: Ю́жский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the twenty-one in Ivanovo Oblast,

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

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Yuzha Yuzha (russian: Ю́жа) is a town and the administrative center of Yuzhsky District in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia, located on Lake Vazal, southeast of Ivanovo, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History A settlement on place ...

. Population: 28,793 ( 2002 Census); The population of Yuzha accounts for 65.6% 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, Yuzha is incorporated within Yuzhsky Municipal District as Yuzhskoye Urban Settlement.Law #53-OZ

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