Kyakhtinsky District
municipal district in Buryatia, Russia
Kyakhtinsky District (Russian: Кя́хтинский райо́н, Russian pronunciation: [ˈkʲæxtʲɪnskʲɪj rəˈjon]; Buryat: Хяагтын аймаг, romanized: Khiaagtyn aimag) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 4,684 square kilometers (1,809 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kyakhta. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 39,785, with the population of Kyakhta accounting for 50.3% of that number.
Geography
The district is located in southern Buryatia, near the Mongolia–Russia border, in the geographical region of the Selenga Highlands.
History
The district was established on December 12, 1923.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kyakhtinsky District is one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia. It is divided into one town (an administrative division with the administrative center in the town (an inhabited locality) of Kyakhta), one urban-type settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Naushki), eight selsoviets, and five somons, all of which comprise forty rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kyakhtinsky Municipal District.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kyakhtinsky District” as municipal district in Buryatia, 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 municipal district in Buryatia, Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q606857. VIAF identifies the subject as 123532638. The Library of Congress control number is no2007063676. Authority coordinates are 50.350, 106.450. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1923.
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