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Zolotukhinsky District

Zolotukhinsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Zolotukhino. Population: 26,800 (2002 Census); The population of Zolotukhino accounts for 21.2% of the district's total population.

Geography

Zolotukhinsky District is located in the north central region of Kursk Oblast, on the border with Oryol Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland. The main river in the district is the Tuskar River, a tributary of the Seym River and part of the Dnieper River Basin. The district is 20&nbsp;km northeast of the city of Kursk, and 420&nbsp;km southwest of Moscow. The area measures 44&nbsp;km (north-south), and 40&nbsp;km (west-east), with a total area of 1,150&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> (3.7% of Kursk Oblast).

The district is bordered on the north by Ponyrovsky District and a portion of Oryol Oblast, on the east by Shchigrovsky District, on the south by Belovsky District, and on the west by Fatezhsky District.

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