Pinezhsky District
Pinezhsky District
Пинежский район (Russian) | |
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A karst cave in Pinezhsky Nature Reserve in Pinezhsky District | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Pinezhsky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 64°04′N 44°27′E / 64.067°N 44.450°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Arkhangelsk Oblast |
| Established | July 15, 1929 |
| Administrative center | Karpogory |
| Area | |
• Total | 32,100 km2 (12,400 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 26,978 |
| • Density | 0.840/km2 (2.18/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Administrative divisions | 17 selsoviet |
| • Inhabited localities | 124 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Pinezhsky Municipal District |
| • Municipal divisions | 0 urban settlements, 15 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK ) |
| OKTMO ID | 11648000 |
| Website | http://www.pinezhye.ru/ |
Pinezhsky District (Пи́нежский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Pinezhsky Municipal District. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Mezensky District in the north, Leshukonsky District and Udorsky District of the Komi Republic in the east, Verkhnetoyemsky District in the south, Vinogradovsky District in the southwest, Kholmogorsky District in the west, and with Primorsky District in the northwest. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Karpogory. District's population: 26,978 (2010 census); 33,516 (2002 census); 40,486 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Karpogory accounts for 16.5% of the district's total population.