Kuznetsky District () is an administrativeLaw #774-ZPO and municipalLaw #690-ZPO district (

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), one of the twenty-seven in

Penza Oblast Penza Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Penza. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was ...

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. It is located in the east of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of Kuznetsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 38,056 ( 2010 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The town of Kuznetsk serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kuznetsky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated separately from the district as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.

Notable residents

Viktor Ilyukhin Viktor Ivanovich Ilyukhin (; 1 March 1949, Sosnovka, Penza Oblast – 19 March 2011, Kratovo, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian State Duma deputy, member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on secu ...

(1949–2011), State Duma deputy, born in Sosnovka * Yevgeny Rodionov (1977–1996), Russian soldier captured and executed by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War, born in Chibirley * Vladimir Zakhmatov (born 1954), scientist

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=October 2012 __NOTOC__ Districts of Penza Oblast