Pozharsky District () is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #191-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 northern and northwestern parts of the

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and borders with

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in the north, Terneysky District in the east and southeast, Krasnoarmeysky District in the south,

Dalnerechensky District Dalnerechensky District () is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #190-KZ district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the central and western parts of the krai. The area of the district is .

in the southwest, and with

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in the west. 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 urban locality (an

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) of

Luchegorsk Luchegorsk () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Pozharsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia. Population: History It was founded in 1966 on the bank of the Kontrovod River. Economy There is a lar ...

. Population: The population of Luchegorsk accounts for 67.6% of the district's total population.

History

The district was established on September 14, 1939 and is named after Ivan Pozharsky, a

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who died during the

Battle of Lake Khasan The Battle of Lake Khasan (), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Chinese and Japanese: zh, s=張鼓峰事件, labels=no; Chinese pinyin: zh, hp=Zhānggǔfēng Shìjiàn, labels=no; Japanese romaji: ), was an attempted military incursion b ...

in 1938.Official website of Pozharsky District
About the district

Population

Ethnic composition (2010): *

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– 91.6% *

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– 3.5% * Udege – 1.7% * Nanai – 0.8% * Others – 2.4%

Notable residents

Viktor Barannikov Viktor Pavlovich Barannikov (; 20 October 1940 — 21 July 1995) was the Soviet Interior Minister in 1991 and Russian Interior Minister from 1992 to 1993. Career He was the interior minister of Russian SFSR from September 1990 to September 1 ...

(1940–1995, born in Fedosyevka), Soviet and Russian Interior Minister 1991–1993 *

Pavel Sulyandziga Pavel Vasilievich Sulyandziga ( born 20 February 1962 in Olon, Pozharsky District, Primorsky Kray) is a Russian indigenous rights activist of Udege people, Udege nationality. He is a member of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights an ...

(born 1962 in Olon), Udege indigenous rights activist

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Sources

* * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of Primorsky Krai States and territories established in 1939 __NOTOC__