Kansky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3015 district (

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), one of the forty-three in

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. It is located in the southeast of the

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and borders with Dzerzhinsky District in the north,

Abansky District Abansky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2755 district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Krasnoyarsk Krai, forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and border ...

in the northeast, Ilansky District in the east, Irbeysky District in the south, Rybinsky District in the southwest, and with

Sukhobuzimsky District Sukhobuzimsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3037 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the south of the krai. The area of the district is .Official website of Kra ...

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

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is the

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of Kansk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 28,667 ( 2002 Census);

Geography

The district is situated in the Kan River valley. The

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of the Kan flow through the district.

History

The district was founded on April 4, 1924.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kansky District is one of the forty-three in the krai. The town of Kansk serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a krai town—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Law #10-4763 The district is divided into fifteen

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s. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kansky Municipal District and is divided into fifteen rural settlements (corresponding to the administrative district's selsoviets). The krai town of Kansk is incorporated separately from the district as Kansk Urban Okrug.Law #12-2372

Economy

A part of the Kansk-Achinsk

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basin, which in the early 1980s was developed into one of the largest coal areas of the

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, lies within the district's boundaries.

Transportation

The

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runs through district territory from west to east. A part of the federal highway M53 passes through the district as well.

Notable people

* Pyotr Slovtsov, opera tenor

References

Notes

Sources

* * * * *

External links

''Kanskiye vedomosti''
, website of the local newspaper *Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture
List of Pyotr Slovtsov's discs

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