Morshansky District

District in Tambov Oblast, Russia

Morshansky District Моршанский район
District
A park in the seloofNovotomnikovo; a protected area of Russia in Morshansky District
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Morshansky District in Tambov Oblast
Coordinates: 53°27′N 41°49′E / 53.450°N 41.817°E / 53.450; 41.817
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Tambov Oblast[1]
Established	10 July 1928
Administrative center	Morshansk[1]
Area [2]
• Total	2,880 km2 (1,110 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[3]
• Total	34,088
• Estimate  (2018)[4]	29,519 (−13.4%)
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Administrative structure
• Administrative divisions	16Selsoviets
• Inhabited localities[1]	117 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporatedas	Morshansky Municipal District[5]
• Municipal divisions[5]	0 urban settlements, 16 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [6])
OKTMOID	68616000
Website	http://rmorshansk.ru

Morshansky District (Russian: Морша́нский райо́н) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] district (raion), one of the twenty-threeinTambov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast and borders Shatsky DistrictofRyazan Oblast in the north, Zemetchinsky DistrictofPenza Oblast in the east, Pichayevsky District in the south, and Sarayevsky District of Ryazan Oblast in the west. The area of the district is 2,880 square kilometers (1,110 sq mi).^[2] Its administrative center is the townofMorshansk (which is not administratively a part of the district).^[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 34,088.^[3]

Administrative and municipal status[edit]

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Morshansky District is one of the twenty-three in the oblast.^[1] The town of Morshansk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^[1]

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Morshansky Municipal District.^[5] The town of oblast significance of Morshansk is incorporated separately from the district as Morshansk Urban Okrug.^[5]

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• Тамбовская областная Дума. Закон №72-З от 21 июня 1996 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области», в ред. Закона №544-З от 11 июня 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статью 7 Закона Тамбовской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области"». Опубликован: "Тамбовская жизнь", №131, 1996 г. (Tambov Oblast Duma. Law #72-Z of June 21, 1996 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast, as amended by the Law #544-Z of June 11, 2015 On Amending Article 7 of the Law of Tambov Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast". ).
• Тамбовская областная Дума. Закон №232-З от 17 сентября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и определении места нахождения представительных органов муниципальных образований в Тамбовской области», в ред. Закона №606-З от 7 декабря 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Тамбовской области "Об установлении границ и определении места нахождения представительных органов муниципальных образований в Тамбовской области"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Тамбовская жизнь", №185 (23125). (Tambov Oblast Duma. Law #232-Z of September 17, 2004 On Establishing the Borders and Determining the Location of the Representative Organs of the Municipal Formations of Tambov Oblast, as amended by the Law #606-Z of December 7, 2015 On Amending the Law of Tambov Oblast "On Establishing the Borders and Determining the Location of the Representative Organs of the Municipal Formations of Tambov Oblast". Effective as of the official publication date.).