Shuysky District () is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the twenty-one in

Ivanovo Oblast Ivanovo Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, cities are Ivanovo (the administrat ...

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.According to Law #145-OZ, the borders of the administrative and municipal districts are identical. Law #52-OZ lists the inhabited localities included in the municipal district. It is located in the center of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of ShuyaLaw #145-OZ (which is not administratively a part of the district).Law #145-OZ stipulates that the borders of the administrative districts are identical to the borders of the municipal districts. The Law #52-OZ, which describes the borders and the composition of Shuysky District, does not list the town of Shuya as a part of that district. Population: 23,660 ( 2002 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

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

, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Shuysky Municipal District.Law #52-OZ The Town of Shuya is incorporated separately from the district as Shuya Urban Okrug.Law #124-OZ

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