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Solntsevsky District

human settlement in Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2629962
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Solntsevsky District (Russian: Со́лнцевский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,052 square kilometers (406 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Solntsevo. As of the 2021 Census, the total population of the district was 12,182, with the population of Solntsevo accounting for 29.7% of that number.

History

The district was established on June 16, 1928.

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Губернатор Курской области. Постановление №489 от 6 ноября 2008 г. «Об утверждении реестра административно-территориальных единиц населённых пунктов Курской области», в ред. Постановления №26-пг от 29 января 2013 г.

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This entry incorporates text from Solntsevsky 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.