Krasnoyaruzhsky District


Krasnoyaruzhsky District is an administrative district, one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Krasnoyaruzhsky Municipal District. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Krasnaya Yaruga. Population: 15,128. The population of Krasnaya Yaruga accounts for 53.9% of the district's total population.

Geography

Krasnoyaruzhsky District sits at the western edge of Belgorod Oblast, on the border with Ukraine. It is bordered on the south by Grayvoronsky District, on the west by Sumy Oblast in Ukraine, on the north by Belovsky District, Kursk Oblast, and on the east by Rakityansky District. The administrative center of the district is the town of Krasnaya Yaruga. The district is west of the city of Belgorod, and is northwest of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The terrain is hilly plain averaging above sea level; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland.