Chernyshevsky District () is an administrative''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities'' and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (

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), one of the thirty-one in

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. It is located in the center of the

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and borders

Tungokochensky District Tungokochensky District () is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the centra ...

in the north,

Sretensky District Sretensky District () is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Zabaykalsky Krai, thirty-one in Zabaykalsky K ...

in the east, District in the south, and

Nerchinsky District Nerchinsky District () is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the center o ...

in the west. The area of the district is .Энциклопедия Забайкалья (''Encyclopedia of Trans-Baikal'']
Entry on Chernyshevsky District
Its

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is the urban locality (an

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) of Chernyshevsk. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 35,019, with the population of Chernyshevsk accounting for 38.2% of that number.

History

The district was established on January 4, 1926 by merging

Chernyshevskaya Chernyshevskaya () is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on September 1, 1958. It is a deep underground pylon station at depth with a short central hall. The station is named after Chernyshevsky Prospek ...

, Kalininskaya, and Zyulzinskaya Volosts of Nerchinsky Uyezd. It was abolished and split between Mogochinsky, Nerchinsky, and Shilkinsky Districts in February 1963, but reinstated in modern borders in January 1965. In 2010, a '' Konservat-Lagerstätte'' was discovered in the district, in the locality of Kulinda, part of the

Ukureyskaya Formation The Ukureyskaya Formation, also referred to as the Ukurey Formation, is a geological formation in Zabaykalsky Krai, part of the Russian Far East. It is made up of Middle Jurassic and Late Jurassic layers. It covers large areas around Kulinda. ...

. The feathered

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n dinosaur ''

Kulindadromeus ''Kulindadromeus'' is a genus of basal neornithischian dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic. The first ''Kulindadromeus'' fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithisch ...

'' was described from the locality in 2014. It is featured on the district's flag and coat of arms.

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