En Name: | Imeni Poliny Osipenko District |
Ru Name: | район имени Полины Осипенко |
Image View: | Taiga of Far East near Imeni Poliny Osipenko village, Khabarovsk Krai.jpg |
Image Coa: | Coat_of_Arms_of_imeni_Poliny_Osipenko_raion_(Khabarovsk_krai).png |
Federal Subject: | Khabarovsk Krai |
Adm Data As Of: | September 2012 |
Adm Ctr Type: | selo |
Adm Ctr Name: | imeni Poliny Osipenko |
No Of Rural Localities: | 16 |
Mun Data As Of: | October 2010 |
Mun Formation1: | Imeni Poliny Osipenko Municipal District |
Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 0 |
Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 5 |
Mun Formation1 Counts Ref: | [1] |
Area Km2: | 34560 |
Area Km2 Ref: | [2] |
Pop 2010Census: | 5198 |
Urban Pop 2010Census: | 0% |
Rural Pop 2010Census: | 100% |
Website: | http://www.rayonosipenko.ru/ |
Commonscat: | Imeni Poliny Osipenko District |
Date: | March 2013 |
Imeni Poliny Osipenko District (Russian: райо́н и́мени Поли́ны Осипе́нко) is an administrative[3] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the center of the krai. The area of the district is 34560km2.[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of imeni Poliny Osipenko. Population: The population of the administrative center accounts for 43.3% of the district's total population.
The district is mountainous. In the western part rise the Yam-Alin, Dusse-Alin, Etkil-Yankansky, Mevadzha and Koltoursky ranges; in the eastern part, parallel to the Amgun River, rise the Kivun, Omal, Omeldin and Chayatyn ranges. The Nimelen-Chukchagir Lowland is located in the central part of the district.[5]
The main rivers of the district are the Amgun and its tributaries Nimelen, Nilan and Semi, as well as the Oldzhikan, Uda and Somnia (Сомня). The Amgun is navigable from the mouth to imeni Poliny Osipenko village. There are about four thousand lakes in the district. The largest are Chukchagir (366km2) and Dzhevdokha (19km2).[6]