Dmitrovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #74/2005-OZ district (

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), one of the thirty-six in

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. It is located in the north of the

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and borders with

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in the northwest,

Klinsky District Klinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #80/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Tver Oblast in the north, Lotoshi ...

in the west,

Solnechnogorsky District Solnechnogorsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #27/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its admini ...

in the southwest,

Taldomsky District Taldomsky District () was an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #42/2005-OZ district ( raion) in Moscow Oblast, Russia. At 2019, it was located in the north of the oblast and bordered with Tver Oblast in the north, Vladimir Oblast in ...

in the north,

Sergiyevo-Posadsky District Sergiyevo-Posadsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #60/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administr ...

in the east,

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in the southeast, and with

Mytishchinsky District Mytishchinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #198/2004-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast just north of the federal city of Moscow. The ...

in the south. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Dmitrov Dmitrov () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Dmitrovsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located to the north of Moscow on the Yakhroma River and the Mosc ...

. Population: 149,793 ( 2002 Census); The population of Dmitrov accounts for 40.5% of the district's total population.

Geography

The district stretches for from north to south and for approximately from east to west. The district is hilly in the south, while the northern portion is mostly flat. The highest point is

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and the lowest point is . The major river flowing through the district include the Sestra, the Volgusha, the

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and the Yakot.

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which connects the

Moskva River The Moskva (, ''Moskva-reka'') is a river that flows through western Russia. It rises about west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through central Moscow. About southeast of Moscow, at the cit ...

with the

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runs through the district.

History

2013 psychiatric hospital fire

On the morning of April 26, 2013, a fire swept through Psychiatric Hospital #14 in the settlement of Ramensky, killing thirty-eight people.

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