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Tsentralny District, Saint Petersburg

Tsentralny District
Центральный район (Russian)
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Tsentralny District on the 2006 map of St. Petersburg
Coordinates: 59°56′12″N 30°21′39″E / 59.93667°N 30.36083°E / 59.93667; 30.36083Coordinates: 59°56′12″N 30°21′39″E / 59.93667°N 30.36083°E / 59.93667; 30.36083
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Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Tsentralny District
Location
Country Russia
Federal subject federal city of St. Petersburg
Statistics
Area 17.12 km2 (6.61 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census) 214,625 inhabitants
Density 12,536.51/km2 (32,469.4/sq mi)
Time zone MSK (UTC+03:00)
Established March 11, 1994
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Tsentralny District (Russian: Центра́льный райо́н) is a district of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 214,625; down from 236,856 recorded in the 2002 Census.

The district borders the Neva River in the north and in the east, Obvodny Canal in the south, and areas around the Gorokhovaya Street in the west.

The district was established on March 11, 1994 as a result of the merger of Dzerzhinsky, Kuybyshevsky, and Smolninsky Districts.

Tsentralny District comprises the following six municipal okrugs:

Head office of the Rossiya airline is located in Vladimirsky Municipal Okrug of the district.


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