Alexeyevsky District () is an administrative district (

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), one of the twenty-one in

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.Law #248 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Alexeyevsky Municipal District.Law #159 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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of Alexeyevka (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 27,493 ( 2002 Census);

Geography

Alexeyevsky District sits on the eastern edge of Belgorod Oblast, on the border with

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. It is bordered on the south by Veydelevsky District and Roveskoy District, on the west by Krasnogvardeysky District, on the north by Krasnensky District, and on the east by three districts in Voronezh Oblast: Kamensky District, Olhovatsky District, and Ostrogozhsky District. The administrative center of the district is the town of Alexeyevka, which occupies in the north-central region of the district (of which the town itself is not part). the district is east of the city of

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. The terrain is steppe and hilly plain; the district lies on the southeast edge of the

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. The two main rivers through the district are the Tikhaya Sosna River, which runs northeast into Voronezh Oblast and into the

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basin, and the Chyornaya Kalitva River, another right tributary of the Don. Because it is in Central Black Earth area, Alexeyevsky has soil and climate suited to agriculture.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Alexeyevsky District is one of the twenty-one in the oblast. The town of Alexeyevka serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Alexeyevsky Municipal District, with the town of oblast significance of Alexeyevka being incorporated within it as Alexeyevka Urban Settlement.

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External links

Alexeyevsky District on Google Maps

Alexeyevsk District on OpenStreetMap.org
{{Authority control __NOTOC__ Districts of Belgorod Oblast