Kabansky District

Kabansky District (Russian: Каба́нский райо́н; Buryat: Хабаансхын аймаг, Khabaanskhyn aimag) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the district is 13,470 square kilometers (5,200 sq mi).^[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kabansk.^[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 59,883, with the population of Kabansk accounting for 10.1% of that number.^[3]

Kabansky District Кабанский район
District
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• Buryat	Хабаансхын аймаг
Fofanovsky Acropolis, a Neolithic burial grounds in Kabansky District
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Kabansky District in the Buryat Republic
Coordinates: 52°02′N 106°39′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Republic of Buryatia[1]
Established	26 September 1927
Administrative center	Kabansk[1]
Area [2]
• Total	13,470 km2 (5,200 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[3]
• Total	59,883
• Density	4.4/km2 (12/sq mi)
• Urban	45.9%
• Rural	54.1%
Administrative structure
• Administrative divisions	1 Towns, 2 Urban-type settlements, 13 Selsoviets, 1 Somons
• Inhabited localities[1]	1 cities/towns, 2 urban-type settlements[4], 59 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Kabansky Municipal District[5]
• Municipal divisions[5]	3 urban settlements, 16 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+8 (MSK+5 [6])
OKTMO ID	81624000
Website	http://kabansk.org

Population of Kabansky District

2010 Census	59,883[3]
2002 Census	65,624[7]
1989 Census	68,820[8]
1979 Census	64,962[9]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kabansky District is one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia.^[1] It is divided into one town (an administrative division with the administrative center in the town (an inhabited locality) of Babushkin), two urban-type settlements (administrative divisions with the administrative centers, correspondingly, in the urban-type settlements (inhabited localities) of Kamensk and Selenginsk), thirteen selsoviets, and one somon, all of which comprise fifty-nine rural localities.^[1] As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kabansky Municipal District.^[5] The town (without its rural localities) and the two urban-type settlements are incorporated as three urban settlements, and the thirteen selsoviets, one somon, and the rural localities of the Town of Babushkin are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal district.^[5] The selo of Kabansk serves as the administrative center of both the administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] district.