Kuznetsky District, Penza Oblast

Kuznetsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Kuznetsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 38,056 (2010 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kuznetsky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The town of Kuznetsk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as "Kuznetsky Municipal District". The town of oblast significance of Kuznetsk is incorporated separately from the district as Kuznetsk Urban Okrug.

Notable residents

• Viktor Ilyukhin (1949–2011), State Duma deputy, born in Sosnovka
• Yevgeny Rodionov (1977–1996), Russian soldier captured and executed by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War, born in Chibirley
• Vladimir Zakhmatov (born 1954), scientist

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