Kizhinginsky District (; , ''Khejengyn aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III 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 c ...

), one of the twenty-one in the

Republic of Buryatia Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East. Formerly part of the Siberian Federal District, it has been administered as part of the Far Eastern Federal District sin ...

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. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is .Official website of the Republic of Buryatia
Information about Kizhinginsky District
Its

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

is the

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

(a '' selo'') of

Kizhinga Kizhinga (, Buryat and ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kizhinginsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 16,509, with the population of Kizhinga accounting for 38.6% of that number.

History

The district was established on December 12, 1940, when its territory was split from

Khorinsky District Khorinsky District (; , ''Khoriin aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the di ...

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kizhinginsky District is one of the twenty-one in the

. The district is divided into two

selsoviet A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings: *The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area. *The territorial subdivision administered ...

s and seven ''

somons A sum is an administrative division used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. Countries such as China and Mongolia have employed the sum as administrative division, which was used during the Qing dynasty. This system was acted in the 1980s after the Chi ...

'', which comprise twenty-one rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kizhinginsky Municipal District. Its two selsoviets and seven ''somons'' are incorporated as nine rural settlements within the municipal district. The '' selo'' of

serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

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