Bezhetsky District
district in Russia
Bezhetsky District (Russian: Бе́жецкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast and borders with Molokovsky District in the north, Krasnokholmsky District in the northwest, Sonkovsky and Kesovogorsky Districts in the east, Kashinsky District in the southeast, Rameshkovsky District in the south, and with Maksatikhinsky District in the west. The area of the district is 2,810 square kilometers (1,080 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Bezhetsk. Population: 36,701 (2010 Census); 14,277 (2002 census); 18,786 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Bezhetsk accounts for 66.8% of the district's total population.
Geography
The whole area of the district belongs to the drainage basin of the Volga River, and much of the area belongs to the basin of the Mologa. The Mologa flows through the district, entering it from the west and turning north. The town of Bezhetsk, the district center, is located on the banks of the Mologa. The principal tributary of the Mologa within the district, the Osen (right), is rather short, but its drainage basin covers the whole eastern part of the district.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bezhetsky District” as district in Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2624164. VIAF identifies the subject as 138554229. The Library of Congress control number is n98051662. Authority coordinates are 57.783, 36.700. 2 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002 and 1989.
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