Rostovsky District

Rostovsky District (Russian: Росто́вский райо́н) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[7] district (raion), one of the seventeen in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,081.82 square kilometers (803.80 sq mi).^[2] Its administrative center is the town of Rostov (which is not administratively a part of the district).^[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 34,062.^[3]

Rostovsky District Ростовский район
District
Lake Nero, a protected area of Russia in Rostovsky District
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Rostovsky District in Yaroslavl Oblast
Coordinates: 57°11′N 39°25′E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Yaroslavl Oblast[1]
Established	10 June 1929
Administrative center	Rostov[1]
Area [2]
• Total	2,081.82 km2 (803.80 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[3]
• Total	34,062
• Estimate  (2018)[4]	63,640 (+86.8%)
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
• Urban	49.4%
• Rural	50.6%
Administrative structure
• Administrative divisions	4 Work settlements, 17 Rural okrugs
• Inhabited localities[5]	4 urban-type settlements[6], 303 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Rostovsky Municipal District[7]
• Municipal divisions[7]	1 urban settlements, 4 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [8])
OKTMO ID	78637000
Website	http://www.admrostov.ru

Population of Rostovsky District

2010 Census	34,062[3]
2002 Census	38,593[9]
1989 Census	43,047[10]
1979 Census	41,671[11]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Rostovsky District is one of the seventeen in the oblast.^[1] The town of Rostov serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^[1]

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Rostovsky Municipal District, with the town of oblast significance of Rostov being incorporated within it as Rostov Urban Settlement.^[7]