Guryevsky District () is an administrative district (

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), one of the fifteen in

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.Law #463 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Guryevsky Urban Okrug.Law #229 It is located in the west of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of Guryevsk.Resolution #639 Population: 47,330 ( 2002 Census); The population of Guryevsk accounts for 23.5% of the district's total population.

Geography

The district is situated around

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, the administrative center of the oblast. For this reason the main railway lines and roads pass through the district. To the north the district reaches the

Curonian Lagoon The Curonian Lagoon (or Bay, Gulf; Prussian: ''Kursjanmari'', , ) is a freshwater lagoon separated from the Baltic Sea by the Curonian Spit. Its surface area is . The Neman River () supplies about 90% of its inflows; its watershed consists of ...

, to the southwest—the

Vistula Lagoon The Vistula Lagoon is a brackish water lagoon on the Baltic Sea roughly 56 miles (90 km) long, 6 to 15 miles (10 to 19 km) wide, and up to 17 feet (5 m) deep, separated from the Gdańsk Bay by the Vistula Spit. Geography The lag ...

. In the west, parted from the rest of the district by Kaliningrad, the town of Svetly is located on the Vistula Lagoon.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Guryevsky District is one of the fifteen in the oblast. The

of Guryevsk serves as its

. As a municipal division, the district has been incorporated as Guryevsky Urban Okrug since May 31, 2013. Prior to that date, the district was incorporated as Guryevsky Municipal District, which was subdivided into one urban settlement and seven rural settlements, including Orekhovka.

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