Mukhorshibirsky District
municipal district in Buryatia, Russia
Mukhorshibirsky District (Russian: Мухоршиби́рский райо́н; Buryat: Мухар Шэбэрэй аймаг, Mukhar Sheberei aimag) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the district is 4,539 square kilometers (1,753 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Mukhorshibir. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 24,969, with the population of Mukhorshibir accounting for 20.9% of that number.
History
The district was established on September 26, 1927 from the territory of Verkhneudinsky Uyezd.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Mukhorshibirsky District is one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia. The district is divided into thirteen selsoviets and three somons, which comprise twenty-nine rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Mukhorshibirsky Municipal District. Its thirteen selsoviets and three somons are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal district.
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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.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1179756. VIAF identifies the subject as 124534239. The Library of Congress control number is n2003052869. Authority coordinates are 51.047, 107.824. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1927.
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