Kemerovsky District Кемеровский район (Russian) |
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Location of Kemerovsky District in Kemerovo Oblast |
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Painted Preserve, Tom River |
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Location | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Kemerovo Oblast |
Administrative structure (as of November 2012) | |
Administrative center | city of Kemerovo |
Administrative divisions: | |
rural territorie | 9 |
Inhabited localities: | |
Rural localities | 71 |
Municipal structure (as of November 2012) | |
Municipally incorporated as | Kemerovsky Municipal District |
Municipal divisions: | |
Urban settlements | 0 |
Rural settlements | 9 |
Statistics | |
Area | 4,391 km2 (1,695 sq mi) |
Population (2010 Census) | 45,459 inhabitants |
• Urban | 0% |
• Rural | 100% |
Density | 10.35/km2 (26.8/sq mi) |
Time zone | KRAT (UTC+07:00) |
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Kemerovsky District (Russian: Ке́меровский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kemerovsky Municipal District. It is located in the northern central portion of the oblast. The area of the district is 4,391 square kilometers (1,695 sq mi). Its administrative center is the city of Kemerovo (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 45,459 (2010 Census); 39,036 (2002 Census);37,207 (1989 Census).
Kemerovsky District is in the northwest of the Kuznetsk Depression, which is the basin of the Tom River between the Salair Ridge to the west, and the Kuznetsky Alatau mountains to the east. The district surrounds the urban city district of Kemerovo, and features a stretch of the Tom River running southeast-to-northwest through the middle. The district covers a rich portion of the Kuznetsk Basin (the "Kuzbass" coal region). The district is 150 km north of the Novokuznetsk. The terrain is a steeply sloping, hilly plain. Vegetation is northern steppe forest, with about 20% of the area steppe.
The district is about 100 km north-to-south, and 75 km west-to-east. Kemerovsky is about 200 km east of the city of Novosibirsk, and the M53 ("Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk") highway runs through the district. Subdivisions of the district include 9 rural settlements. The climate of the district is humid continental (Koppen Dfb).