Balakhtinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3005 district (

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), one of the forty-three in

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. It is located in the southwest of the

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and borders with Kozulsky and

Yemelyanovsky District Yemelyanovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3145 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the krai and borders with Bolshemurtinsky Dist ...

s in the north, Beryozovsky District in the northeast,

Mansky District Mansky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2864 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai and borders with Beryozovsky District in the north and nort ...

in the east,

Kuraginsky District Kuraginsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3009 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders with Balakhtinsky, Mansky, Partizans ...

in the southeast, Idrinsky, Krasnoturansky, and

Novosyolovsky District Novosyolovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3001 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders with Balakhtinsky District in the nor ...

s in the south,

Uzhursky District Uzhursky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3028 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders with Nazarovsky District in the north, Bal ...

in the west, and with

Nazarovsky District Nazarovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3113 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai and borders with Achinsky District in the north, Ko ...

in the northwest. The area of the district is .Official website of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Information about Balakhtinsky District
Its

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is the urban locality (an

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) of Balakhta. Population: 25,518 ( 2002 Census); The population of Balakhta accounts for 35.3% of the district's total population.

Geography

The district is situated in the valley between the Chulym and

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History

The district was founded on April 4, 1924.

Government

As of 2013, the Head of the district is Nikolay M. Yurtayev.

Demographics

As of the 2002 Census, the ethnic composition of the population was as follows: *

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: 86.4% *

Germans Germans (, ) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, constitution of Germany, imple ...

: 6.3% * Chuvash: 1.8% *

Ukrainians Ukrainians (, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, forming the List of contemporary eth ...

: 1.4% *

Mordvins Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; ; no equivalents in Moksha language, Moksha and Erzya language, Erzya) is an official term used in Russia and the Soviet Union to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928. Names While Robert Gordon ...

: 0.7% *

Belarusians Belarusians ( ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus. They natively speak Belarusian language, Belarusian, an East Slavic language. More than 9 million people proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide. Nearly 7.99&n ...

: 0.6% *

Tatars Tatars ( )Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary are a group of Turkic peoples across Eas ...

: 0.5% *

Khakas The Khakas are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia. They speak the Khakas language. The Khakhassian people are direct descendants of various ancient cultures that have inhabited southern Siberia ...

: 0.1% The rate of the natural decline of the district population was 4.3 persons per 1,000 in 2009, which is in sharp contrast to the krai's average increase of 0.2 persons per 1,000.Агенство труда и занятости населения Красноярского края. Проект переселения «Балахтинский район»
Общая характеристика территории вселения «Балахтинский район»

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=February 2013 Districts of Krasnoyarsk Krai States and territories established in 1924