Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast
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Guryevsky District (Russian: Гу́рьевский райо́н) is a district (raion) of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The district's administrative center is Guryevsk. District's population: 47,330 (2002 Census); 39,148 (1989 Census).
The district is situated around Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast. For this reason the main railway lines and roads pass through the district.
To the north the district reaches the Curonian Lagoon, to the south-west the Vistula Lagoon. In the west, parted from the rest of the district by Kaliningrad, the town of Svetly is located on the Vistula Lagoon.
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