Klyuchevsky District

Klyuchevsky District (Russian: Ключе́вский райо́н) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[4] district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai. The area of the district is 3,043 square kilometers (1,175 sq mi).^[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Klyuchi.^[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 18,267, with the population of Klyuchi accounting for 48.7% of that number.^[3]

Klyuchevsky District Ключевский район
District
The selo of Kaip in Klyuchevsky District
Location of Klyuchevsky District in Altai Krai
Coordinates: 52°16′N 79°10′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Altai Krai[1]
Established	1928
Administrative center	Klyuchi[1]
Area [2]
• Total	3,043 km2 (1,175 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[3]
• Total	18,267
• Density	6.0/km2 (16/sq mi)
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Administrative structure
• Administrative divisions	10 Selsoviets
• Inhabited localities[1]	18 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Klyuchevsky Municipal District[4]
• Municipal divisions[4]	0 urban settlements, 10 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+7 (MSK+4 [5])
OKTMO ID	01617000
Website	http://kluchialt.ru

Population of Klyuchevsky District

2010 Census	18,267[3]
2002 Census	20,113[6]
1989 Census	19,271[7]
1979 Census	20,124[8]

Geography

Klyuchevsky District lies in the Kulunda Plain; flat steppe landscape dominates the area. There are no major rivers running through the district, but there are 26 significant lakes, including Krivaya Puchina, Shukyrtuz, Petukhovo, Petukhovskoye and Kurichye.^[9][10] 52% of the area is arable land for crops, another 20% used in pasture, and the southwest corner of the district is forested.^[2] Klyuchevsky District lies about 350 km to the southwest of the city of Novosibirsk, 280 km west of the regional city of Barnaul, and 2,600 km east of Moscow. The district measures 60 km (north–south), and 60 km (west–east); its total area is 3,042 km2 (about 2% of Altai Krai). The administrative center is the town of Klyuchi in the west-center of the district, on the one major road running north–south through the district.

The district is located on the western border Altai Krai and is bordered to the north by Kulundinsky District, to the east by Rodinsky District, to the south by Mikhaylovsky District, and to the west by the Pavlodar Region of Kazakhstan.