Znamensky District () is an administrativeLaw #72-Z and municipalLaw #232-Z district (

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), one of the twenty-three in

Tambov Oblast Tambov Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Tambov. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was&n ...

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. It is located in the southwestern central part of the

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. The district borders with

Tambovsky District Tambovsky District (Russian: Тамбо́вский райо́н) is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia: * Tambovsky District, Amur Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Amur Oblast *Tambovsky Distr ...

in the north,

Sampursky District Sampursky District () is an administrativeLaw #72-Z and municipalLaw #232-Z district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tambov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The district borders with Rasskazovsky District in the north ...

in the east, Tokaryovsky District in the south, and with Morshansky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Znamenka. Population: 18,405 ( 2010 Census); The population of Znamenka accounts for 33.5% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

Natalia Pushkina Natalia Nikolayevna Pushkina-Lanskaya (; 8 September 1812 – 26 November 1863) ( Goncharova) (Гончарова) was the wife of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin from 1831 until his death in 1837 in a duel with Georges d'Anthès. Natalia ...

(1812–1863), wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin, born in the village of Karian

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=February 2013 Districts of Tambov Oblast