Zavolzhsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the twenty-one in

Ivanovo Oblast Ivanovo Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, cities are Ivanovo (the administrat ...

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

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of Zavolzhsk. Population: 22,039 ( 2002 Census); The population of Zavolzhsk accounts for 68.9% of the district's total population.

Administrative and municipal status

The town of Zavolzhsk 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, Zavolzhsk is incorporated within Zavolzhsky Municipal District as Zavolzhskoye Urban Settlement.Law #39-OZ

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* * {{Authority control Districts of Ivanovo Oblast __NOTOC__