Baryatinsky District
district of Kaluga Oblast, Russia
Baryatinsky District (Russian: Барятинский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,110.3 square kilometers (428.7 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Baryatino. Population: 5,383 (2021 census); 6,340 (2010 census); 6,614 (2002 Census); 8,097 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Baryatino accounts for 43.3% of the district's total population.
Geography
Baryatinsky District is located in the western region of Kaluga Oblast, on the Baryatinsky-Suhinichskoy plain. Most of the district is on karst terrain, with plains covering most of the south, and ridges up to 279 meters in the north on the border with Smolensk Oblast. About 40 percent of the region is deciduous forest (birch, aspen, spruce, pine). The divide between the Dnieper River basin and the Volga River basin runs through the district, with rivers in the south of the district flowing south to the Dnieper.
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