Adamovsky District
municipal district in Orenburg Oblast, Russia
Adamovsky District (Russian: Ада́мовский райо́н; Kazakh: Адамау ауданы, Adamau audany) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-five in Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is 6,500 square kilometers (2,500 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Adamovka. The population as of the 2010 Census was 26,079. 31,133 (2002 census); 29,608 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Adamovka accounts for 29.7% of the total district's population.
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Законодательное Собрание Оренбургской области. Закон №1370/276-IV-ОЗ от 11 июля 2007 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Оренбургской области», в ред.
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