Aginsky District


Aginsky District is an administrative district Agin-Buryat Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, one of the thirty-one in the krai. It is located in the south of the krai, and borders with Karymsky District in the north, Mogoytuysky District in the east, Ononsky District in the south, and with Duldurginsky District in the west. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Aginskoye. Population: 29,511 ; The population of Aginskoye accounts for 45.4% of the district's total population.

History

The district was established on January 16, 1941.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Aginsky District is one of the thirty-one in the krai. The urban-type settlement of Aginskoye serves as its administrative center.
As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Aginsky Municipal District, to which two urban-type settlements and twenty of the administrative district's rural localities belong, and Aginskoye Urban Okrug, which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye and the remaining rural locality.