Azovsky Nemetsky National District

Not to be confused with Nemetsky National District in Altai Krai, Russia.

Azovsky Nemetsky National District (English) Азовский немецкий национальный район (Russian) Deutsche Nationalkreis Asowo (German)
Location of Azovsky Nemetsky National District on the map of Omsk Oblast
Administrative status (as of 2009)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Oblast Omsk
Administrative center	selo of Azovo
Statistics
Population (2002 Census)	22,346 inhabitants[1]
- Urban population	0%
- Rural population	100%
Time zone	[2]

Azovsky Nemetsky National District (Russian: Азо́вский Неме́цкий национа́льный райо́н; German: Deutscher Nationalkreis Asowo) is an administrative and a municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-two in Omsk Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 1,400 kilometers (870 mi).^{[citation needed]} Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Azovo. District population: 22,346 (2002 Census).^[1]

Geography

The administrative center of the district, Azovo, lies about 40 kilometers southwest of Omsk. The population as of 1 January 2007 was 22,246 (Of which 56%-Russians, 24%-Germans, 8.3%-Kazakhs and 6.8%-Ukrainians).

Administratively, the district is divided into eight rural okrugs comprising twenty-eight rural localities. The largest inhabited localities include Azovo, Beryozovka, Tsvetnopolye, Sosnovka, Alexandrovka, and Zvonarev Kut.

History

The fist villages in what is now Azovsky Nemetsky National District were founded in 1893 by the Volga Germans.

Heads of the district administration were Bruno Heinrich Reuters (1992-2010) and Viktor Sabelfeld (2010-present).

See also

• History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
2. ^ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication).