Buysky District
district in Kostroma Oblast, Russia
Buysky District (Russian: Бу́йский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 3,248 square kilometers (1,254 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Buy (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 9,035 (2021 census); 11,829 (2010 census); 8,847 (2002 Census); 11,737 (1989 Soviet census).
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Buysky District is one of the twenty-four in the oblast. The town of Buy serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Buysky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Buy is incorporated separately from the district as Buy Urban Okrug.
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Костромская областная Дума.
“Buysky District” enters the record as district in Kostroma Oblast, Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Buysky, District and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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