Kuznetsky District, Penza Oblast
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|image_caption=Museum of Radishchev. Transfiguration Church. 18th century, Kuznetsky District
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|pop_2010census=38056
|urban_pop_2010census=17.9%
|rural_pop_2010census=82.1%
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Kuznetsky District ({{langx|ru|Кузне́цкий райо́н}}) is an administrativeLaw #774-ZPO and municipalLaw #690-ZPO district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is {{convert|2071|km2|sp=us}}.{{cite web|title=General Information|url=http://rkuzn.pnzreg.ru/about/general_info_kuzn|publisher=Kuznetsky District|language=russian|access-date=May 15, 2017}} Its administrative center is the town of Kuznetsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 38,056 (2010 Census);{{ru-pop-ref|2010Census}} {{ru-census|p2002=41,712|p1989=41,597}}
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The town of Kuznetsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kuznetsky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated separately from the district as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.
Notable residents
- Viktor Ilyukhin (1949–2011), State Duma deputy, born in Sosnovka
- Yevgeny Rodionov (1977–1996), Russian soldier captured and executed by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War, born in Chibirley
- Vladimir Zakhmatov (born 1954), scientist
References
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{{Penza Oblast}}
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