Ulchsky District

52°22′19″N 140°26′13″E

Ulchsky District Ульчский район
District
Tyr village on the Amur River, by Yegor Meyer
Coat of arms
Location of Ulchsky District in Khabarovsk Krai
Coordinates: 52°22′19″N 140°26′13″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Khabarovsk Krai[1]
Established	17 January 1933
Administrative center	Bogorodskoye[2]
Area [3]
• Total	39,128 km2 (15,107 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)[4]
• Total	18,729
• Density	0.48/km2 (1.2/sq mi)
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Administrative structure
• Inhabited localities[1]	32 rural localities
Municipal structure
• Municipally incorporated as	Ulchsky Municipal District[5]
• Municipal divisions[6]	0 urban settlements, 18 rural settlements
Time zone	UTC+10 (MSK+7 [7])
OKTMO ID	08650000
Website	http://www.adminulchi.ru/

The Tyr Cliff as seen by Ernst Georg Ravenstein ca. 1860

Ulchsky District (Russian: У́льчский райо́н) is an administrative^[1] and municipal^[5] district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the east of the krai and named after the indigenous Ulch people. The area of the district is 39,128 square kilometers (15,107 sq mi).^[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Bogorodskoye.^[2] Population: 18,729 (2010 Census);^[4] 23,930 (2002 Census);^[8] 28,746 (1989 Soviet census).^[9] The population of Bogorodskoye accounts for 20.8% of the district's total population.^[4]

History

A number of interesting Yuan and Ming Dynasty archaeological monuments have been found on the Tyr Cliff near the village of Tyr in this district.

Demographics

Over 90% of the Russian population of Ulch people live in Ulchsky District.