Atkarsky District


Atkarsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the town of Atkarsk. Population: 16,550 ;

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Atkarsky District is one of the thirty-eight in the oblast. The town of Atkarsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town under oblast jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Atkarsky Municipal District, with Atkarsk Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction being incorporated within it as Atkarsk Urban Settlement.