Odintsovsky District (rus)

Odintsovsky District

Odintsovsky District ranks 6,361st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Iizuka, Fukuoka, Ōkawa, Fukuoka, and Lancaster, Ohio. Memorable people born in Odintsovsky District include Alexei Navalny, Leonid Spirin, and Yuri Gavrilov. Memorable people who died in Odintsovsky District include Sophia Parnok. Odintsovsky District has been the birth place of many social activists, and athletes and the death place of many writers. Odintsovsky District is located in Russia.

Odintsovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the oblast and borders with the federal city of Moscow in the east, Leninsky District in the southeast, Naro-Fominsky District in the south, Ruzsky District in the west, Istrinsky District in the north, and with Krasnogorsky District in the northeast. The area of the district is 1,289.628 square kilometers (497.928 sq mi). Its administrative center is the city of Odintsovo. Population: 316,696 ; 286,033 (2002 Census); 129,343 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Odintsovo accounts for 43.9% of the district's total population. The city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan also belongs administratively to the district. Read more on Wikipedia