Starodubsky District (russian: Староду́бский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #13-Z] and municipal
[Law #3-Z] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-seven in
Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast (russian: Бря́нская о́бласть, ''Bryanskaya oblast''), also known as Bryanshchina (russian: Брянщина, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. As of th ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the south of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an o ...
of
Starodub
Starodub ( rus, links=no, Староду́б, p=stərɐˈdup, ''old oak'') is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, on the Babinets River (the Dnieper basin), southwest of Bryansk. Population: 16,000 (1975).
History
Starodub has been known ...
(which is not administratively a part of the district).
[Law #69-Z stipulates that the borders of the administrative divisions match those of the corresponding municipal divisions. Law #3-Z contains the lists of the inhabited localities for each municipal division.] Population: 44,573 (
2002 Census);
The population of Starodub accounts for 50.0% of the district's total population.
Administrative and municipal divisions
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Starodubsky District is one of the
twenty-seven in the oblast.
The town of
Starodub
Starodub ( rus, links=no, Староду́б, p=stərɐˈdup, ''old oak'') is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, on the Babinets River (the Dnieper basin), southwest of Bryansk. Population: 16,000 (1975).
History
Starodub has been known ...
serves as its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
, despite being incorporated separately as an
urban administrative okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Starodubsky Municipal District.
Starodub Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated separately from the district as Starodub Urban Okrug.
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Districts of Bryansk Oblast
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