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Tymovsky District () is an administrative district (
raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...
) of
Sakhalin Oblast Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalinskaya oblastʹ, p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ...
,
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; one of the seventeen in the
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.Law #25-ZO Municipally, it is incorporated as Tymovsky Urban Okrug.Law #524 It is located in the center of the Island of Sakhalin. 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 urban locality (an
urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...
) of Tymovskoye. Population: The population of Tymovskoye accounts for 48.5% of the district's total population.


Geography

The
Tym River The Tym () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, right tributary of the Ob. The length of the river is , and it drains a basin of . The Tym freezes up in October to early November and stays icebound until late April to May. ...
passes through the district in a roughly south-north direction.


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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Districts of Sakhalin Oblast __NOTOC__