Districts of Russia
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A district (raion) is an administrative and municipal division of a federal subject of Russia.
As of 2023, excluding Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sevastopol, there are 1,893 administrative districts (including the 20 in the
In modern Russia, division into administrative districts largely remained unchanged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[citation needed] The term "district" ("raion") is used to refer to an administrative division of a federal subject or to a district of a big city.
In two federal subjects, however, the terminology was changed to reflect national specifics: in Sakha, where they are known as ulus (улус), and in Tuva, where they are known as kozhuun (кожуун).[1]
Hierarchy
Within the
Within the
Municipal district
A municipal district (муниципа́льный райо́н) is a type of
Municipal districts are commonly formed within the boundaries of existing administrative districts, although in practice there are some exceptions to this rule—Sortavalsky Municipal District in the Republic of Karelia, for example, is formed around the town of Sortavala, which neither has a status of nor is a part of any administrative district.
City districts
Many major cities in Russia—except for federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg—are divided into city districts. Such city districts are usually considered to be administrative divisions of the city and prior to 2014 could not be a separate municipal formation. Examples of such city districts are Sovetsky City District in Nizhny Novgorod and Adlersky City District in Sochi.
Occupied territories of Ukraine
The
See also
- List of districts in Russia
- National districts of the Russian Federation, special ethnically-based districts
References
- ^ Constitution of the Tyva Republic, Article 138.2a