Smidovichsky District


Smidovichsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the five in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the autonomous oblast and borders Khabarovsk Krai in the north and east, China in the south, and Birobidzhansky District in the west. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Smidovich. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 28,165, with the population of Smidovich accounting for 18.2% of that number.

Geography

The district stretches for from north to south and for from west to east. The terrain is low river plain, with the Amur and Tunguska Rivers wide and meandering along the district borders. Immediately to the east of the district is the city of Khabarovsk.
The climate is suited to agriculture, supporting buckwheat, corn, wheat, and vegetables.

Transportation

The Trans-Siberian Railway runs across northern length of the district, as does the Amur Highway from Chita to Khabarovsk.