Michurinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #72-Z and municipalLaw #232-Z district (

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), one of the twenty-three in

Tambov Oblast Tambov 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 Tambov. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was&n ...

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. It is located in the northwest of the

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. The district borders with Pervomaysky District in the north, Nikiforovsky District in the east, Petrovsky District in the south, and with

Dobrovsky District Dobrovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #382-OZ and municipalLaw #114-OZ district (raion), one of the eighteen in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center An ...

Lipetsk Oblast Lipetsk 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 Lipetsk. As of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, its population was&n ...

in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Michurinsk Michurinsk () is the second most populous town in Tambov Oblast Tambov 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 Tambov ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 34,245 ( 2010 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Michurinsky District is one of the twenty-three in the oblast. The town of

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 Michurinsky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Michurinsk is incorporated separately from the district as Michurinsk Urban Okrug.

Notable residents

Afanasy Grigoriev Afanasy Grigorievich Grigoriev (; 21 January 1782 – 13 May 1868) was a Russian Neoclassical architect, who worked in Moscow and its suburbs. Grigoriev is remembered for his refined Empire style mansions, completion of Great Ascension Church ( ...

(1782–1868), Neoclassical architect, born in Vasilievskaya * Afanasiy Remnyov (1890–1919), Soviet soldier during the Russian Civil War

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Administrative and municipal status

Notable residents

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