Olonetsky District ( Russian : Оло́нецкий райо́н ; Karelian : Anuksen piiri ) is an administrative district ( raion ), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia , Russia .
23-556: Olonetsky (masculine), Olonetskaya (feminine), or Olonetskoye (neuter) may refer to: Olonetsky District , a district of the Republic of Karelia, Russia Olonetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation incorporating the town of Olonets and eight rural localities in Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia Olonets Governorate ( Olonetskaya guberniya ),
46-429: A municipal division , the district is incorporated as Olonetsky Municipal District . The town of Olonets and eight rural localities are incorporated into an urban settlement, while the remaining fifty-six rural localities are incorporated into eight rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of Olonets serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district. The basis of
69-684: A governorate of the Russian Empire Olonets Viceroyalty ( Olonetskoye namestnichestvo ), a viceroyalty of the Russian Empire bordering Vologda Viceroyalty Olonets Oblast ( Olonetskaya oblast ), a division of the Russian Empire, originally in Novgorod Viceroyalty See also: Olonets (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
92-479: A native of Berezhnaya village. Mikhail Konstantinovich Kononov (1923-2005) was an economic and party leader, a native of the city of Olonets. Ivan Petrovich Kuzmin (1928-2002) — Honored School teacher of the RSFSR, a native of the village of Matchezero. Heroes of Socialist Labor worked in the district — I. V. Chaikin, S. V. Sablin, F. F. Koshkin. Subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions Russia
115-424: A part of municipal formations are known as inter-settlement territories [ ru ] , a concept introduced in 2019. The Federal Law was amended on 27 May 2014 to include new types of municipal divisions: In June 2014, Chelyabinsky Urban Okrug became the first urban okrug to implement intra-urban divisions. Federal legislation introduced on May 1, 2019, added an additional territorial unit: All
138-863: A treaty was signed between Russia and the Republic of Crimea incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol as constituent members of the Russian Federation. According to the Treaty, the Republic of Crimea is accepted as a federal subject with the status of a republic while the City of Sevastopol has received federal city status. Neither the Republic of Crimea nor the city of Sevastopol are politically recognized as parts of Russia by most countries . Similarly, Russia also annexed four Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk , Kherson , Luhansk , and Zaporozhzhia on 30 September 2022 after internationally-unrecognized referendums held days prior, during
161-462: Is divided into several types and levels of subdivisions. The federal districts are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not mentioned in the nation's constitution, do not have competences of their own, and do not manage regional affairs. They exist solely to monitor consistency between the federal and regional bodies of law, and ensure governmental control over the civil service, judiciary, and federal agencies operating in
184-781: Is mild, moderately continental. The average temperature in January is -9.9 °C, in July — +16.5 °C. The average annual precipitation is 584 mm. The district was formed on August 29, 1927 as part of the Autonomous Karelian SSR . In 1930, the Vidlitsky district of the Autonomous Karelian SSR became part of the district. During the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944) , the territory of the district
207-428: Is the town of Olonets . Olonetsky district is equated to the districts of the far north . Refers to national areas. About 90% of the district's territory is occupied by forests and swamps. There are 49 lakes and 11 rivers on the territory of the district. The nature of the relief is mainly flat. In the north and east of the district there are hills, the most significant is Mount Zheleznaya (97 m). The climate
230-760: The Zaporozhye Oblast —are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine . All federal subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council ( upper house of the Federal Assembly ). They do, however, differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. De jure, excluding the occupied Ukrainian territories, there are 6 types of federal subjects—21 republics , 9 krais , 46 oblasts , 2 federal cities , 1 autonomous oblast , and 4 autonomous okrugs . Autonomous okrugs are
253-598: The invasion of Ukraine that began in late February, which were organized by Russian occupation authorities in territories where hostilities were ongoing and much of the population had fled. It occurred seven months after the start of the invasion and less than a month after the start of the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive . The signing ceremony was held in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow in
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#1732772150439276-736: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 17 August 1982 "On the Procedures of Dealing with the Matters of the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the RSFSR". The 1993 Constitution, however, did not identify the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions as the responsibility of the federal government nor as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the subjects. This
299-585: The district's economy is the forestry industry, timber processing and agriculture (crop production, meat and dairy farming, animal husbandry). Tourism activity is developing. The federal highway « Kola » passes through the district. The district is connected by regular bus routes with Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Sortavala. Commuter flights from Olonets to Verkhny Olonets, Vidlitsa, Ilyinsky , Tuksy, Kovera, Megrega, Rypushkalitsa and Verkhovye. Railway line Yanisjarvi — Lodeynoye Pole. More than 130 monuments of historical and cultural heritage have been preserved on
322-621: The federal subjects are grouped into eight federal districts, each administered by an envoy appointed by the President of Russia . The envoys serve as liaisons between the federal subjects and the federal government and are primarily responsible for overseeing the compliance of the federal subjects with federal laws. For economic and statistical purposes the federal subjects are grouped into twelve economic regions. Economic regions and their parts sharing common economic trends are in turn grouped into economic zones and macrozones . In order for
345-511: The following types of high-level administrative divisions are recognized: Autonomous okrugs and okrugs are intermediary units of administrative divisions, which include some of the federal subject's districts and cities/towns/urban-type settlements of federal subject significance. Typical lower-level administrative divisions include: In the course of the Russian municipal reform of 2004–2005, all federal subjects of Russia were to streamline
368-563: The only ones that have a peculiar status of being federal subjects in their own right, yet at the same time they are considered to be administrative divisions of other federal subjects (with the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug being the only exception). On 18 March 2014, as a part of the annexation of Crimea and following the establishment of the Republic of Crimea (an independent entity that was recognized only by Russia),
391-457: The presence of occupation authority heads Leonid Pasechnik , Denis Pushilin , Yevgeny Balitsky , and Vladimir Saldo , and Russian President Vladimir Putin . Like Crimea, none of the four occupied regions are internationally recognized as part of Russia. Prior to the adoption of the 1993 Constitution of Russia , the administrative-territorial structure of Russia was regulated by the Decree of
414-659: The regions. The federal district system was established on 13 May 2000. Since 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation has consisted of eighty-nine federal subjects that are constituent members of the Federation. However, six of these federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea , the Donetsk People's Republic , the Kherson Oblast , the Lugansk People's Republic , the federal city of Sevastopol , and
437-484: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olonetsky&oldid=647650821 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Olonetsky District Its administrative center
460-498: The structures of local self-government, which is guaranteed by the Constitution of Russia . The reform mandated that each federal subject was to have a unified structure of municipal government bodies by 1 January 2005, and a law enforcing the reform provisions went into effect on 1 January 2006. According to the law, the units of the municipal division (called " municipal formations ") are as follows: Territories not included as
483-471: The territory of the district. Olonetsky District is the only district in the republic where Karelians form a majority of the population (63.4% in 1989). Natural population growth rate was -12.02 per 1,000 in 1994. Artamonov Ivan Ilyich (1914-1985) — Hero of the Soviet Union , a native of the village of Stepannavolok. Vladimir Egorovich Brandoev (1931-1990) was a Karelian poet and translator,
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#1732772150439506-415: Was interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions became solely the responsibility of the federal subjects. As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another. While the implementation details may be considerably different, in general, however,
529-613: Was occupied. The territory of the district was liberated by Soviet troops in the summer of 1944 during the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation . On May 23, 1957, part of the territory of the abolished Pitkyarantsky district was annexed to the Olonetsky district. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Olonetsky District is one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia and has administrative jurisdiction over one town ( Olonets ) and sixty-four rural localities . As
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