En Name: | Kansky District |
Ru Name: | Канский район |
Image View: | Река Уря - panoramio.jpg |
Coordinates: | 56.2°N 138°W |
Image Coa: | Coat_of_arm_Kansky_District.gif |
Federal Subject: | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Adm Data As Of: | December 2011 |
Adm Ctr Type: | town |
Adm Ctr Name: | Kansk |
Selsoviet Type1: | selsoviet |
No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 15 |
No Of Rural Localities: | 61 |
Mun Data As Of: | April 2009 |
Mun Formation1: | Kansky Municipal District |
Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 0 |
Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 15 |
Mun Formation1 Leader Title: | Head |
Mun Formation1 Leader Title Ref: | [1] |
Mun Formation1 Leader Name: | Lyudmila N. Krasnoshapko |
Mun Formation1 Representative Body: | Kansky District Council of Deputies |
Area Of What: | municipal district |
Area Km2: | 4321 |
Pop 2010Census: | 27281 |
Urban Pop 2010Census: | 0% |
Rural Pop 2010Census: | 100% |
Established Date: | April 4, 1924 |
Website: | https://web.archive.org/web/20120304182750/http://www.kanskraion.ru/ |
Date: | February 2013 |
Kansky District (Russian: Ка́нский райо́н) is an administrative[2] and municipal[3] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the krai and borders with Dzerzhinsky District in the north, Abansky District in the northeast, Ilansky District in the east, Irbeysky District in the south, Rybinsky District in the southwest, and with Sukhobuzimsky District in the west. The area of the district is 4321km2.[4] Its administrative center is the town of Kansk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 28,667 (2002 Census);
The district is situated in the Kan River valley. The tributaries of the Kan flow through the district.
The district was founded on April 4, 1924.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kansky District is one of the forty-three in the krai. The town of Kansk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a krai town—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[5] The district is divided into fifteen selsoviets.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kansky Municipal District and is divided into fifteen rural settlements (corresponding to the administrative district's selsoviets). The krai town of Kansk is incorporated separately from the district as Kansk Urban Okrug.[6]
A part of the Kansk-Achinsk lignite basin, which in the early 1980s was developed into one of the largest coal areas of the Soviet Union, lies within the district's boundaries.
The Trans-Siberian Railway runs through district territory from west to east. A part of the federal highway M53 passes through the district as well.