Oktyabrsky District () is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #159-KZ district (

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), one of the twenty-two in

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krais of Russia, krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

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. It is located in the southwest of the

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. The area of the district is .
(Official website of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. ''Municipal Formations of Primorsky Krai'') Its

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is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Pokrovka. Population: The population of Pokrovka accounts for 34.5% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

* Alexandra Kim (1885–1918), Korean revolutionary political activist, born in the Korean village of Sinelnikovo *

Valery Zorkin Valery Dmitrievich Zorkin (; born 18 February 1943) is a Russian legal scholar and jurist serving as the 4th and current President of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. He also served as the 1st President of the Constitution ...

(born 1943), Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, born in Konstantinovka

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Primorsky Krai