Pugachyovsky District

Pugachyovsky District (Russian: Пугачёвский райо́н) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 3,900.6 square kilometers (1,506.0 sq mi).^[3] Its administrative center is the town of Pugachyov^[2] (which is not administratively a part of the district).^[11] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 20,031.^[4]

Pugachyovsky District Пугачёвский район
District
Tulip steppe, a protected area of Russia in Pugachyovsky District
Coat of arms
Location of Pugachyovsky District in Saratov Oblast
Coordinates: 52°01′N 48°48′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Saratov Oblast[1]
Established	23 July 1928
Administrative center	Pugachyov[2]
Area [3]
• Total	3,900.6 km2 (1,506.0 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[4]
• Total	20,031
• Density	5.1/km2 (13/sq mi)
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Administrative structure
• Inhabited localities[2]	63 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Pugachyovsky Municipal District[5]
• Municipal divisions[6]	1 urban settlements, 8 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+4 (MSK+1 [7])
OKTMO ID	63637000
Website	http://pugachev-adm.ru

Population of Pugachyovsky District

2010 Census	20,031[4]
2002 Census	23,574[8]
1989 Census	24,510[9]
1979 Census	25,455[10]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Pugachyovsky District is one of the thirty-eight in the oblast.^[1] The town of Pugachyov serves as its administrative center,^[2] despite being incorporated separately as a town under oblast jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts (and which, in addition to Khvalynsk, also includes one rural locality).^[11]

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Pugachyovsky Municipal District,^[5] with Pugachyov Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction being incorporated within it as Pugachyov Urban Settlement.^[6]