Shalinsky District (Russian: Шалинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.[1] The area of the district is 4,852 square kilometers (1,873 sq mi).[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Shalya.[2] Population: 23,834 (2010 Census);[4] 26,019 (2002 Census);[8] 31,384 (1989 Soviet census).[9] The population of Shalya accounts for 27.0% of the district's total population.[4]
Shalinsky District
Шалинский район | |
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Coordinates: 57°16′01″N 58°49′37″E / 57.267°N 58.827°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast[1] |
Established | 1932 |
Administrative center | Shalya[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 4,852 km2 (1,873 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 23,834 |
• Density | 4.9/km2 (13/sq mi) |
• Urban | 39.4% |
• Rural | 60.6% |
Administrative structure | |
• Administrative divisions | 2 Work settlements, 9 Selsoviets |
• Inhabited localities[5] | 2 Urban-type settlements[6], 41 rural localities |
Municipal structure | |
• Municipally incorporated as | Shalinsky Urban Okrug[7][5] |
Website | http://www.shalya.ru/ |
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Shalinsky District is one of the thirty in the oblast.[1] The work settlement of Shalya serves as its administrative center.[2]
As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Shalinsky Urban Okrug,[7][5] to which the work settlement of Shalya and thirty-eight of the administrative district's rural localities belong,[10] and Staroutkinsk Urban Okrug,[11][5] which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the work settlement of Staroutkinsk and three remaining rural localities.[12]