Evenkiysky District
Evenkiysky District
Эвенкийский район (Russian) | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Evenk | Эведы район |
Taiga in Evenkiysky District | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
| Anthem: Anthem of Evenkiysky Municipal District | |
Location of Evenkiysky District in Krasnoyarsk Krai | |
| Coordinates: 65°N 98°E / 65°N 98°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Krasnoyarsky Krai |
| Established | December 4, 2006 |
| Administrative center | Tura |
| Government | |
| • Type | Local government |
| • Body | Evenkiysky District Council of Deputies |
| • Head | Andrey V. Gayulsky |
| Area | |
• Total | 763,200 km2 (294,700 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 16,253 |
| • Density | 0.02130/km2 (0.05516/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 34.1% |
| • Rural | 65.9% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Inhabited localities | 25 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Evenkiysky Municipal District |
| • Municipal divisions | 0 urban settlements, 23 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (MSK+4 ) |
| OKTMO ID | 04650000 |
| Website | https://evenkya.gosuslugi.ru/ |
Evenkiysky District (Russian: Эвенки́йский райо́н, Evenki: Эведы район, romanized: Evedy rayon), or Evenkia (Russian: Эвенкия), is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsky Krai, Russia. Before 1 January 2007, it was split into three different districts - Baykitsky, Ilimpiyskiy and Tungussko-Chunsky - as the Evenk Autonomous Okrug—a federal subject (an autonomous okrug) of Russia.
It is located in the central and eastern parts of the krai and borders with Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District in the north, the Sakha Republic and Irkutsk Oblast in the east, Kezhemsky, Boguchansky, Motyginsky, and Severo-Yeniseysky Districts & Yeniseysky District in the south, and with Turukhansky District in the west. The area of the district is 763,200 square kilometers (294,700 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Tura.
Population: 16,253 (2010 census); 17,697 (2002 census); 24,409 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Tura accounts for 34.1% of the district's total population.