Prionezhsky District (; ; ; ) is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
fifteen in the
Republic of Karelia
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,
Russia
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.
[Constitution of the Republic of Karelia] It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is .
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
city
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of
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk (, ; Karelian language, Karelian, Veps language, Vepsian and ) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some . The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.
...
[Law #871-ZRK] (which is not administratively a part of the district).
As of the
2010 Census, the total population of the district was 21,502.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Prionezhsky District is one of the
fifteen in the
Republic of Karelia
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and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its fifty-one
rural localities.
The city of
Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk (, ; Karelian language, Karelian, Veps language, Vepsian and ) is the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some . The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.
...
serves as 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 ...
,
despite being incorporated separately as a
city of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Prionezhsky Municipal District.
[Law #825-ZRK] Its fifty-one rural localities are incorporated into thirteen rural settlements within the municipal district.
[Law #813-ZRK] The city of republic significance of Petrozavodsk is incorporated separately from the district as Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug,
[Law #824-ZRK] but serves as the administrative center of the municipal district as well.
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Districts of the Republic of Karelia
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