Zhigalovsky District () is an administrative district, one of the
thirty-three in
Irkutsk Oblast
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,
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.
[Charter of Irkutsk Oblast] Municipally, it is incorporated as Zhigalovsky Municipal District.
[Law #68-oz] Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Zhigalovo.
[Law #49-OZ] Population: 10,408 (
2002 Census);
The population of Zhigalovo accounts for 57.5% of the district's total population.
Geography
The district is located in the
Lena-Angara Plateau
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area. The
Ilga and
Tutura, tributaries of the
Lena River
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, flow across it.
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The area of the district is .
Some of the settlements of the district are
Ust-Ilga (Усть-Илга),
Konstantinovka (Константиновка),
Lukinovo (Лукиново),
Bachai
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(Бачай),
Zakharova (Захарова),
Timoshino (Тимошино),
Butyrina (Бутырина),
Kaidakan (Кайдакан),
Chikan (Чикан),
Tutura (Тутура),
Kelora (Келора),
Chichek (Чичек),
Kachen (Качень),
Rudovka (Рудовка),
Znamenka (Знаменка), and
Nizhnyaya Sloboda (Нижняя Слобода).
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