Vadinsky District
municipal district in Russia
Vadinsky District (Russian: Ва́динский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,040 square kilometers (400 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Vadinsk. Population: 9,807 (2010 Census); 11,218 (2002 census); 14,137 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Vadinsk accounts for 49.9% of the district's total population.
Notable residents
Ivan Mokrousov (1919–1972), Red Army soldier during World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union, born in the village of Rakhmanivka
Georg Myasnikov (1926–1996), politician and historian
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Законодательное Собрание Пензенской области. Закон №774-ЗПО от 9 марта 2005 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Пензенской области», в ред. Закона №2484-ЗПО от 28 ноября 2013 г.
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