Aleksinsky District () is an administrative district (

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), one of the twenty-three in

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.Law #954-ZTO It is located in the northwest of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Aleksin Aleksin () is a town and the administrative center of Aleksinsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Tula, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded at the end of the 13th century and fir ...

. Population: 74,326 ( 2010 Census); The population of Aleksin accounts for 83.1% of the district's total population.

History

On the night of 8–9 November 2024, during the

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launched a drone attack on the Aleksin Chemical Plant—part of the

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—in the Aleksinsky District, about south of Moscow, causing a series of explosions and fires at the plant which manufactures ammunition and explosives for the Russian military. Russian sources did not acknowledge the attack's success, "as is common following a reported attack by Ukraine on one of ussia'smilitary sites."

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Aleksinsky District is one of the twenty-three in the oblast. The town of

serves as its

. As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Aleksin Urban Okrug,Law #2140-ZTO to which the town of Aleksin and 154 of the administrative district's rural localities belong,

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lists 1 town, 1 work settlement, and 154 rural localities in Aleksinsky District. The town of Aleksin and 154 rural localities are listed as a part of Aleksin Urban Okrug in Law #2140-ZTO. and Novogurovsky Urban Okrug,Law #554-ZTO which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the work settlement of Novogurovsky.OKATO lists 1 town, 1 work settlement, and 154 rural localities in Aleksinsky District. The work settlement of Novogurovsky is listed as a part of Novogurovsky Urban Okrug in Law #554-ZTO.

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