Spas-Demensky District () is an administrative
[Charter of Kaluga Oblast, Article 4] and municipal
[Law #354-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-four in
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga 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 Kaluga. The Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census found a population o ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the west of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
is the
town
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of
Spas-Demensk
Spas-Demensk (А. М. Прохоров. "Большой энциклопедический словарь". Москва, 1997, p. 1135.) is a town and the administrative center of Spas-Demensky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on ...
.
As of the
2021 Census, the total population of the district was 7,369, with the population of Spas-Demensk accounting for 62.0% of that number.
History
The district was established in 1929 within
Sukhinichi Okrug
Sukhinichi () is a town and the administrative center of Sukhinichsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, a large railway junction on the Moscow – Kyiv line, situated on the Bryn River southwest of Kaluga, the administrative center of th ...
of
Western Oblast
Western Oblast () was an administrative-territorial unit (''oblast'') of the Russian SFSR from 1929 to 1937. Its seat was in the city of Smolensk. The oblast was located in the west of European Russia, and its territory is currently divided b ...
from a part of former
Mosalsky Uyezd Mosalsky Uyezd (''Моса́льский уе́зд '') was one of the subdivisions of the Kaluga Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the western part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Mosalsk.
Demographics
At the ...
.
[Official website of Spas-Demensky District]
History
It became a part of
Kaluga Oblast
Kaluga 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 Kaluga. The Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census found a population o ...
on July 5, 1944.
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Districts of Kaluga Oblast
States and territories established in 1929
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