En Name: | Krasnogorsky District |
Ru Name: | Красногорский район |
Coordinates: | 52.9992°N 31.5936°W |
Federal Subject: | Bryansk Oblast |
Adm Data As Of: | January 2013 |
Adm Ctr Type: | work settlement |
Adm Ctr Name: | Krasnaya Gora |
Urban-Type Settlement Of District Significance Type: | Settlement administrative okrugs |
No Of Urban-Type Settlements Of District Significance: | 1 |
Selsoviet Type1: | Rural administrative okrugs |
No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 6 |
No Of Urban-Type Settlements: | 1 |
No Of Rural Localities: | 59 |
Counts Ref: | [1] |
Mun Data As Of: | April 2012 |
Mun Formation1: | Krasnogorsky Municipal District |
Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 1 |
Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 6 |
Area Km2: | 1081 |
Area Km2 Ref: | [2] |
Pop 2010Census: | 13208 |
Urban Pop 2010Census: | 44.7% |
Rural Pop 2010Census: | 55.3% |
Website: | http://www.krgadm.ru/index.php |
Date: | November 2011 |
Krasnogorsky District (Russian: Красного́рский райо́н) is an administrative[3] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 1081km2.[2] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Krasnaya Gora. Population: 16,863 (2002 Census); The population of Krasnaya Gora accounts for 53.7% of the district's total population.
As a result of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides (mainly Gordeyevsky, Klimovsky, Klintsovsky, Krasnogorsky, Surazhsky, and Novozybkovsky Districts). In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km2, representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.