Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast (rus)

Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast

Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast ranks 9,297th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Alhaurín el Grande, Lochinvar, New South Wales, and Odorheiu Secuiesc. Memorable people born in Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast include Nikolay Przhevalsky, and Aleksandr Tvardovsky. Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast has been the birth place of many explorers, and writers. Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast is located in Russia.

Pochinkovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Smolensk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the oblast and borders with Kardymovsky District in the north, Glinkovsky District in the northeast, Yelninsky District in the east, Roslavlsky District in the southeast, Shumyachsky District in the south, Khislavichsky District in the southwest, Monastyrshchinsky District in the west, and with Smolensky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 2,380.75 square kilometers (919.21 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Pochinok. Population: 30,959 ; 37,537 (2002 Census); 44,162 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Pochinok accounts for 28.3% of the district's total population. Read more on Wikipedia