Chernigovsky District (russian: Черни́говский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #132-KZ district (

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

), one of the twenty-two in

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

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. It is located in the southwest of the

krai A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. Etymologically, the word is relat ...

. The area of the district is .
(Official website of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. ''Municipal Formations of Primorsky Krai'') Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of

Chernigovka Chernigovka (russian: Черниговка) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: * Chernigovka, Arkharinsky District, Amur Oblast, a '' selo'' in Chernigovsky Rural Settlement of Arkharinsky District of Amur Oblast * Chernigovka, Svo ...

. Population: The population of Chernigovka accounts for 36.0% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

* Denis Kniga (born 1992 in

), football player

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Primorsky Krai