Altai Krai - Definition and Overview

Altai Krai (Алта́йский край) is a regional subdivision of Russia in the Siberian Federal District. It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative center is the city of Barnaul.

The region's main waterway is the Ob River. The region has an area of 169,100 km&sup2 and a population of around 2.6 million (census 2002). With over 600,000 inhabitants, Barnaul is the largest city of the territory.

Administrative Division

Districts

Altai Krai consists of the following districts (Russian: районы):

• Aleysky (Алейский)
• Altaysky (Алтайский)
• Bayevsky (Баевский)
• Biysky (Бийский)
• Blagoveshchensky (Благовещенский)
• Burlinsky (Бурлинский)
• Bystroistoksky (Быстроистокский)
• Charyshsky (Чарышский)
• Kalmansky (Калманский)
• Kamensky (Каменский)
• Khabarsky (Хабарский)
• Klyuchevsky (Ключевский)
• Kosikhinsky (Косихинский)
• Krasnogorsky (Красногорский)
• Krasnoshchyokovsky (Краснощёковский)
• Krutikhinsky (Крутихинский)
• Kulundinsky (Кулундинский)
• Kuryinsky (Курьинский)
• Kytmanovsky (Кытмановский)
• Loktevsky (Локтевский)
• Mamontovsky (Мамонтовский)
• Mikhaylovsky (Михайловский)
• Nemetsky (German) National (Немецкий национальный)
• Novochikhinsky (Новочихинский)
• Pankrushikhinsky (Панкрушихинский)
• Pavlovsky (Павловский)
• Pervomaysky (Первомайский)
• Petropavlovsky (Петропавловский)
• Pospelikhinsky (Поспелихинский)
• Rebrikhinsky (Ребриховский)
• Rodinsky (Родинский)
• Romanovsky (Романовский)
• Rubtsovsky (Рубцовский)
• Shelabolikhinsky (Шелаболихинский)
• Shipunovsky (Шипуновский)
• Slavgorodsky (Славгородский)
• Smolensky (Смоленский)
• Soloneshensky (Солонешенский)
• Soltonsky (Солтонский)
• Sovetsky (Советский)
• Suyetsky (Суетский)
• Tabunsky (Табунский)
• Talmensky (Тальменский)
• Togulsky (Тогульский)
• Topchikhinsky (Топчихинский)
• Tretyyakovsky (Третьяковский)
• Troitsky (Троицкий)
• Tselinny (Целинный)
• Tyumentsevsky (Тюменцевский)
• Uglovsky (Угловский)
• Ust-Kalmansky (Усть-Калманский)
• Ust-Pristansky (Усть-Пристанский)
• Volchikhinsky (Волчихинский)
• Yegoryevsky (Егорьевский)
• Yeltsovsky (Ельцовский)
• Zalesovsky (Залесовский)
• Zarinsky (Заринский)
• Zavyyalovsky (Завьяловский)
• Zmeinogorsky (Змеиногорский)
• Zonalny (Зональный)

See also: Subdivisions of Russia

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