Kineshemsky District
Кинешемский район
District
Reshemka river mouth and the Volga River
Reshemka river mouth and the Volga River
Flag of Kineshemsky District
Flag
Coat of arms of Kineshemsky District
Coat of arms
Map
Location of Kineshemsky District in Ivanovo Oblast
Coordinates: 57°27′01″N 42°06′54″E / 57.45028°N 42.11500°E / 57.45028; 42.11500
CountryRussia
Federal subjectIvanovo Oblast[1]
Administrative centerKineshma[1]
Area
[2]
 • Total1,583 km2 (611 sq mi)
Population
 (2010 Census)[3]
 • Total23,258
 • Estimate 
(2018)[4]
21,286 (−8.5%)
 • Density15/km2 (38/sq mi)
 • Urban
43.9%
 • Rural
56.1%
Administrative structure
 • Inhabited localities[5]232 rural localities
Municipal structure
 • Municipally incorporated asKineshemsky Municipal District[6]
 • Municipal divisions[6]1 urban settlements, 6 rural settlements
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[7])
OKTMO ID24611000
Websitehttp://www.mrkineshma.ru/

Kineshemsky District (Russian: Ки́нешемский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia.[5] It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,583 square kilometers (611 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the town of Kineshma[1] (which is not administratively a part of the district).[8] Population: 18,402 (2021 Census);[9] 23,258 (2010 Census);[3] 27,650 (2002 Census);[10] 30,805 (1989 Census).[11]

Geography

Kineshemsky District is located in the northeast of Ivanovo Oblast, mostly on the right bank (south at this point) of the Volga River. About a fifth of the district is on the left (north) bank of the Volga, which runs west to east through the area. About 2/3 of the area is forested, and 1/3 is agricultural land on sandy and clay soils. Kineshemsky District is 90 km southeast of the city of Kostroma, and 400 km northeast of Moscow. The area measures 60 km (north-south), and 50 km (west-east); total area is 1,583 km2 (about 7% of Ivanovo Oblast). The administrative center, Kineshema, is on the south bank of the Volga, at the northwest entrance to the district.[2]

The district is bordered on the north by Zavolzhsky District, on the east by Yuryevetsky District, on the south by Lukhsky District, and on the west by Vichugsky District.

History

Archaeological records suggest that human settlement in Kineshemsky District began in the second or third century BC by a people of the Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture migrating from the west. They made polished-stone tools and were primarily hunters and fishers. By the first millennium AD the area was inhabited by the Meriya tribe of the Volga-Finns, raising cattle and beginning to build fortified towns.[2] By the end of the first millennium a burial-mound culture of Krivachi Slavs had moved in with more advanced cattle-breeding and agricultural practices.

The earliest historical descriptions of Kineshemsky is from 1429, when an army of Kazan Tatars attacked and looted the area. In the early 1400s, Kineshema and the surrounding area became part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In the early 1600s it was twice invade by armies of the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa. In 1701, Peter the Great administratively reassigned Kineshemsky District to Arkhangelogorodskaya province; it was later reassigned to Yaroslavl province and Kostroma province until its final organization in Ivanovo Oblast.[2]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kineshemsky District is one of the twenty-one in the oblast.[1] The town of Kineshma serves as its administrative center,[1] despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[8] Prior to the adoption of the Law #145-OZ On the Administrative-Territorial Division of Ivanovo Oblast in December 2010, the town of Navoloki was also incorporated separately from the district with the same status as Kineshma.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kineshemsky Municipal District.[6] The Town of Kineshma is incorporated separately from the district as Kineshma Urban Okrug.[12] The town of Navoloki is incorporated within the municipal district as Navolokskoye Urban Settlement.[6]

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Law #145-OZ
  2. ^ a b c d e "General Information" (in Russian). Kineshemsky District. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. ^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b According to Law #145-OZ, the borders of the administrative and municipal districts are identical. Law #42-OZ lists the inhabited localities included in the municipal district.
  6. ^ a b c d Law #42-OZ
  7. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  8. ^ a b Law #145-OZ stipulates that the borders of the administrative districts are identical to the borders of the municipal districts. The Law #42-OZ, which describes the borders and the composition of Kineshemsky District, does not list the town of Kineshma as a part of that district.
  9. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. Том 1 [2020 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1] (XLS) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  10. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (21 May 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  11. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  12. ^ Law #124-OZ

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