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Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District

human settlement in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2216891 ↗
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Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District (Russian: Нерчинско-Заводский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the east and southeast of the krai, and borders with Gazimuro-Zavodsky District in the north, and Kalgansky District in the south. The area of the district is 9,700 square kilometers (3,700 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Nerchinsky Zavod. Population: 10,782 (2010 census); 12,499 (2002 Census); 15,605 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Nerchinsky Zavod accounts for 26.4% of the district's total population.

History

The district was established on January 4, 1926.

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Министерство территориального развития Забайкальского края. 1 января 2014 г. «Реестр административно-территориальных единиц и населённых пунктов Забайкальского края», в ред.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nerchinsko-Zavodsky District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.