Imeni Poliny Osipenko District

Imeni Poliny Osipenko District (Russian: райо́н и́мени Поли́ны Осипе́нко) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] 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 34,560 square kilometers (13,340 sq mi).^[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of imeni Poliny Osipenko.^[2] Population: 5,198 (2010 Census);^[4] 6,568 (2002 Census);^[8] 7,651 (1989 Soviet census).^[9] The population of the administrative center accounts for 43.3% of the district's total population.^[4]

Imeni Poliny Osipenko District район имени Полины Осипенко
District
Taiga of Far East near Imeni Poliny Osipenko village
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Imeni Poliny Osipenko District in Khabarovsk Krai
Coordinates: 52°25′14″N 136°28′55″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Khabarovsk Krai[1]
Established	1926
Administrative center	imeni Poliny Osipenko[2]
Area [3]
• Total	34,560 km2 (13,340 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[4]
• Total	5,198
• Density	0.15/km2 (0.39/sq mi)
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Administrative structure
• Inhabited localities[1]	16 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Imeni Poliny Osipenko Municipal District[5]
• Municipal divisions[6]	0 urban settlements, 5 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+10 (MSK+7 [7])
OKTMO ID	08637000
Website	http://www.rayonosipenko.ru/

Geography

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.^[10]

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 (366 km² (141 sq mi)) and Dzhevdokha (19 km² (7.3 sq mi)).^[11]