En Name: | Bayevsky District |
Ru Name: | Баевский район |
Image View: | Центральная площадь у администрации.jpg |
Coordinates: | 53.2667°N 126°W |
Federal Subject: | Altai Krai |
Adm Data As Of: | September 2015 |
Adm Ctr Type: | selo |
Adm Ctr Name: | Bayevo |
Selsoviet Type1: | Selsoviets |
No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 8 |
No Of Rural Localities: | 15 |
Mun Data As Of: | September 2015 |
Mun Formation1: | Bayevsky Municipal District |
Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 0 |
Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 8 |
Area Km2: | 2740 |
Pop 2010Census: | 10979 |
Urban Pop 2010Census: | 0% |
Rural Pop 2010Census: | 100% |
Website: | http://baevo-altai.ru |
Date: | January 2013 |
Bayevsky District (Russian: Ба́евский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[2] district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the krai. The area of the district is 2740km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Bayevo. Population: The population of Bayevo accounts for 42.9% of the district's total population.
Bayevsky District is located in the northwest of Altai Krai. The area is on a rolling steppe landscape of the Ob Plateau. The Ob River reaches to within 40 km of the district, to the northwest. On the territory there are over 130 lakes and reservoirs, as well as the Kulunda Main Canal. The soil is black earth, and there are salt marshes. Part of Mostovoye lake is located in the district.[3] [4] The north has birch groves, the east of the district has mixed-forests, and the west is steppe. Bayevsky District is about 220 km southwest of the city of Novosibirsk, 170 km west of the regional city of Barnaul, and 2,750 km east of Moscow. The area measures 50 km (north-south), and 65 km (west-east); total area is 2,740 km2 (about 2% of Altai Krai). The administrative center is the town of Bayevo, in the north-center of the district at a junction of the main north–south and west–east roads.[5]
The district is bordered on the north by Pankrushikhinsky District and Kamensky District, on the east by Tyumentsevsky District, on the south by Zavyalovsky District, and on the west by Suetsky District.