The Kursk Region is included in the Central Administrative District, with the center in the city of Kursk. The region borders not only on the regions of the Russian Federation, but also on Ukraine. The territorial unit received official status in 1934.
By the standards of Russia, the region is small, with a population of 1.122 million people (Rosstat data as of January 2017). Districts in the Kursk region 28.
Belovsky and Bolshesoldatsky
In the Belovsky district, the center is the settlement Sloboda Belaya. The date of formation is 1965. The main activity is agriculture. This area of the Kursk region borders on Ukraine. 15,491 people live here.
In the Bolshesoldatsky district, the administrative, economic and cultural center is the village of Bolshoye Soldatskoye. There are 11,236 people in the district.
Glushkovsky and Gorshechensky
The territory of Glushkovsky has common borders with Ukraine, 19,503 people live here. There are alcohol, sugar and bread factories. At the Glushkovo station, an asph alt plant, but the main economic componentregion is agriculture. The administrative center is Glushkovo.
The next in the list of districts of the Kursk region is Gorshechensky, which occupies 4.7% of the entire territory of the region. The center is the village of Gorshechnoye. A little over 16 thousand people live in the region. It is on this territorial unit that the protected area "Barkalovka" is located in the upper reaches of the Apochka River.
Dmitrievsky and Zheleznogorsky
Dmitrievsky has 14,854 inhabitants (the center is the city of Dmitriev), which is home to about 44.56% of the total population.
Zheleznogorsk is home to 15,890 people, but only 10.52% live in urban areas, in the center, in the working settlement of Magnitny. By the way, the city of Zheleznogorsk is the administrative center, but it is not part of the district.
Zolotukhinsky
Quite densely populated area with 21,751 people per 1,150 sq. km. The administrative center is the village of Zolotukhino. On the Tuskar River, in the village of Vorobyovka, there is the estate of the great Russian poet Fet A. A.
Kastorinsky and Konyshevsky
More than 15 thousand people live in Kastorinsky, the center is the working settlement of Kastornoye. On the territory there are sugar and milk-canning plants, railway enterprises. There is something to see in the area, there are 16 burial mounds, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the XVIII century and holy springs.
In the Konyshevsky district of the Kursk region, the administrative center of the village of Konyshevka. There are few residents in the district - 8,744, and the share of the administrative centeraccounts for nearly 40%. There are two churches of the 19th century, protected by law, and the Monastery of the Mother of God of the Sign in the area.
Kursk
Kursk district of the Kursk region is the largest, 57,692 people live here. In the area on the right bank of the river Rat there is an ancient Slavic settlement dating back to the 9th-14th centuries.
The head of the administration of the Kursk district of the Kursk region today is Ryzhikov V. M.
The composition includes 17 village councils of the Kursk district of the Kursk region.
Kurchatovsky and Korenevsky, Lgovsky
Kurchatov is famous for its nuclear power plant and reservoir (the center is the city of Kurchatov). The district has a population of 18,759.
More than 16 thousand people live in Korenevsky. Of the industrial enterprises - an electrical plant and two peat deposits. AC – urban-type settlement Korenevo.
The population of the Lgovsky district is 12,003 people, with the center in the city of Lgov. It was here, in the village of Banishchi, that the great Russian painter Repin N. N. was born
Manturovsky and Medvensky
There are 7 rural settlements in Manturovsky with a total population of 12,414 people. The administrative center is the village of Manturovo.
16,432 people live in Medvensky, the center is the town of Medvenka. There are several old churches in the area - in the villages of Lubitskoye, Panino and Medvenka.
Oboyansky and Oktyabrsky
Inhabitants in Oboyan more than 29 thousand, the administrative center is the city of Oboyan.
In Oktyabrsky, the main cultural and administrativethe center is the village of Pryamitsyno. The total population is 24,611.
Ponyrovsky and Pristensky, Rylsky and Soviet
Almost 11 thousand people live in Ponyrovsky, the center is the village of Ponyri.
15,5 thousand people live in Pristensky, the center is Pristen town. In the village of Kirovsky there is a museum "Command Post of the Voronezh Front".
31,609 people live in the Rylsk municipality. The center is the city of Rylsk. In the center of the village of Kapystichi there is a settlement, the excavations of which revealed that the settlement was founded in the 9th and 11th centuries.
17,000 people live in the Sovetsky District, the center is the town of Pshensky.
Solntsevsky and Sudzhansky
In the Solntsevsky district, the center is the town of Solntsevo, the total number of inhabitants of the municipal unit is 13,733. In the village of Orlyanka there is a church dating back to 1794.
In Sudzhansky (26,773 people) the center is the city of Sudzha. There are many industrial enterprises and 2 chalk developments. In the village of Gusevo there is the estate of Dolgorukov P. D., and in the village of Gornal there is a large settlement.
Timsky and Fatezhsky
10,897 people live in Timsky (Tim). In the center of the district is the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1863.
18,220 people live in Fatima district. In the city of Fatezh (administrative center) there is a unique Church of the Mother of God of Tikhvin, built in 1800.
Khomutovsky, Cheremisinovsky and Shchigrovsky
In a small Khomutovsky district with a population of 9,117people, with a center in the working settlement of Khomutovka, between the villages of Kapystichi and Bupel there is a mound attributed to the Iron Age.
Cheremisinovsky (working settlement of Cheremisinovo) is also home to few people (9,128). There are many monuments and mounds dating back to the 3rd-2nd millennium BC.
Schigrovsky (the city of Shchigry) is also small in area and number of inhabitants (10,111).
