Aginsky District () is an administrative district (raion) Agin-Buryat Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, one of the thirty-one in the krai.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities It is located in the south of the krai, and borders with Karymsky District in the north, Mogoytuysky District in the east, Ononsky District in the south, and with Duldurginsky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Aginskoye. Population: 29,511 (2002 Census); The population of Aginskoye accounts for 45.4% of the district's total population.
History The district was established on January 16, 1941.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Aginsky District is one of the thirty-one in the krai. The urban-type settlement of Aginskoye serves as its administrative center.
As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Aginsky Municipal District,Law #316-ZZK to which two urban-type settlements and twenty of the administrative district's rural localities belong,The Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities lists three urban-type settlements and twenty-one rural localities in Aginsky District. Two urban-type settlements and twenty rural localities are listed as a part of Aginsky Municipal District in Law #317-ZZK. and Aginskoye Urban Okrug, which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye and the remaining rural locality.The Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities lists three urban-type settlements and twenty-one rural localities in Aginsky District. The urban-type settlement of Aginskoye and one rural locality are listed as a part of Aginskoye Urban Okrug in Law #316-ZZK.
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