Aleksinsky District (Russian: Але́ксинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tula Oblast, Russia.[1] It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 982.5 square kilometers (379.3 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the town of Aleksin.[1] Population: 74,326 (2010 Census);[3] 13,350 (2002 Census);[8] 14,727 (1989 Soviet census).[9] The population of Aleksin accounts for 83.1% of the district's total population.[3]
Aleksinsky District
Алексинский район | |
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Coordinates: 54°30′N 37°04′E / 54.500°N 37.067°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Tula Oblast[1] |
Established | 15 August 1924 |
Administrative center | Aleksin[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 982.5 km2 (379.3 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 74,326 |
• Estimate (2018)[4] | 67,399 (−9.3%) |
• Density | 76/km2 (200/sq mi) |
• Urban | 87.9% |
• Rural | 12.1% |
Administrative structure | |
• Administrative divisions | 1 Towns under district jurisdiction, 1 Urban-type settlements, 13 Rural okrugs |
• Inhabited localities[5][6] | 1 cities/towns, 1 Urban-type settlements[7], 154 rural localities |
Municipal structure | |
• Municipally incorporated as | Aleksin Urban Okrug[5][6] |
Website | http://www.aleksin.tula.ru/ |
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Aleksinsky District is one of the twenty-three in the oblast.[1] The town of Aleksin serves as its administrative center.[1]
As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Aleksin Urban Okrug,[5] to which the town of Aleksin and 154 of the administrative district's rural localities belong,[6] and Novogurovsky Urban Okrug,[10] which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the work settlement of Novogurovsky.[11]