Kyakhtinsky District (russian: Кя́хтинский райо́н, ; bua, Хяагтын аймаг, Khiaagtyn aimag) is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (

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), one of the twenty-one in the

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Kyakhta Kyakhta (russian: Кя́хта, ; bua, Хяагта, Khiaagta, ; mn, Хиагт, Hiagt, ) is a town and the administrative center of Kyakhtinsky District in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Mongolia–Rus ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 39,785, with the population of Kyakhta accounting for 50.3% of that number.

Geography

The district is located in southern Buryatia, near the Mongolia–Russia border, in the geographical region of the Selenga Highlands.

History

The district was established on December 12, 1923.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kyakhtinsky District is one of the twenty-one in the

. It is divided into one

(an administrative division with the

in the town (an inhabited locality) of

), one

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(an administrative division with the administrative center in the

(inhabited locality) of Naushki), eight

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

s, and five '' somons'', all of which comprise forty rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kyakhtinsky Municipal District. The town (together with one rural locality—the settlement of Sudzha) and the urban-type settlement are incorporated as two urban settlements, and the eight selsoviets and five ''somons'' are incorporated as fifteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of Kyakhta serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

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