Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast

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Vyborgsky District on the map of Leningrad Oblast
Vyborgsky District on the map of Leningrad Oblast

Vyborgsky District (Russian: Вы́боргский райо́н) is a district (raion) of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, on Karelian Isthmus, established in 1940 when the territory had been ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union by Moscow Peace Treaty as a result of the Winter War. The area of the district is 7,350.9 km². Its administrative center is the town of Vyborg (which is administratively not a part of the district). District's population: 113,748 (2002 Census);[1] 108,571 (1989 Census).[2]

Administratively, the district comprises four towns (Kamennogorsk, Primorsk, Svetogorsk, Vysotsk), three urban-type settlements (Lesogorsky, Roshchino, Sovetsky), and twenty-two volosts (Bolshepolskaya, Borodinskaya, Gavrilovskaya, Glebychevskaya, Goncharovskaya, Gvardeyskaya, Kirillovskaya, Kondratyevskaya, Krasnodolinskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Krasnosokolskaya, Leninskaya, Losevskaya, Pervomayskaya, Polyanskaya, Seleznyovskaya, Sokolinskaya, Tokarevskaya, Tsvelodubskaya, Vozrozhdenskaya, Yermilovskaya, and Zhitkovskaya).[3]

A 20-35 km wide stretch of land in the district to the west of the Vyborg–Hiitola railway, as well as the islands and shores of the Gulf of Vyborg, belong to the strictly guarded zone of the border control. In 1993 - 2006 formally the zone was 5km wide, although in reality it has always been much wider. Visiting it is forbidden without a permit issued by the FSB (KGB in the time of the Soviet Union).

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  1. ^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000) (Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
  2. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.) (Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics (1989). Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
  3. ^ Постановление №10 главы администрации Ленинградской области от 18 января 1994 г. "Об изменениях административно-территориального устройства районов Ленинградской области". (Resolution of the Head of Leningrad Oblast #10 of January 18, 1994 On Changes of the Administrative and Territorial Structure of the Districts of Leningrad Oblast)


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