Administrative division of Sakhalin Oblast

The Sakhalin Oblast in the Far Eastern Federal District of the Russian Federation is divided into 17 Rajons and a city district (as of 2012).

In contrast to most other subjects of the Russian Federation, there are only a few rural (selskoje posselenije) and urban parishes (gorodskoje posselenije) in Sakhalin Oblast : only two urban and one rural parishes in Uglegorski rajon and one urban municipality in Poronaiski rajon. Otherwise all other localities are directly subordinate to the respective Rajons or the city district.

history

As part of the administrative reform in the Russian Federation, the Sakhalin Oblast law of July 21, 2004 transformed most of the former Rajons into urban districts; only the Rajons Newelski and Uglegorski remained as such. In addition, the territory around the urban-type Wachrushev was spun off into an independent urban district. There was a lengthy legal battle between the Oblast Government and the Oblast Public Prosecutor's Office over the introduction of urban districts instead of the Rajons; but it was finally confirmed in this form by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on April 5, 2006.

In 2009, after a local referendum, the Nevelski rajon was also converted into an urban district and its communities dissolved.

At the end of 2011, the urban districts, with the exception of the urban district around the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk oblast center, were renamed to Rajons again. However, the municipal structures previously created - with the Rajons, formerly urban districts, directly subordinate localities instead of an intermediate level of rural and urban communities - were retained. Only the district of Wachrushev was reintegrated into the Poronaiski rajon and converted into a township (gorodskoje posselenije) ; the communities of the Uglegorski rajon remained.

City districts

	Urban district	Residents	Area (km²)	Population density (inh / km²)	Urban population	Rural population	Number of cities	Number of villages
17th	Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	189,010	898.27	210	181,728	7,282	1	10

Rajons

Rajon Residents Area (km²) Population density (inh / km²) Urban population Rural population Administrative headquarters Other localities Number of cities Number of villages 1 Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky 13,404 4,777.36 2.8 10,613 2,791 Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky   1 13 2 Aniwski 17,533 2,684.80 6.5 9.115 8,418 Aniwa   1 15th 15th Cholmsky 41,925 2,279.04 18th 30,937 10,988 Cholmsk   1 23 4th Dolinski 25,899 2,441.56 11 12,200 13,699 Dolinsk   1 12 16 Yuzhno-Kurilsky 9,501 1,856.09 5.1 5,832 3,669 Yuzhno-Kurilsk   1 9 5 Korsakovsky 41,411 2,623.58 16 33,526 7,885 Korsakov   1 17th 6th Kurilski 7,359 5,145.90 1.4 2,070 5,289 Kurilsk   1 6th 7th Makarovsky 8,579 2,148.43 4th 6,705 1,874 Makarov   1 10 18th Nevelsky 17,558 1,445.40 12 11,682 5,876 Nevelsk   1 10 8th Noglikski 12,124 11,294.80 1.1 10,231 1,893 Nogliki   1 11 9 Ochinski 25,855 14,815.87 1.7 23.008 2,847 Oh yeah   1 10 10 + 3 Poronaiski 23,931 7,284.27 3 18,365 5,566 Poronaisk Wachrushev 2 11 11 Severo-Kurilsky 2,536 3,501.23 0.7 2,536 0 Severo-Kurilsk   1 1 12 Smirnychowski 13,142 10,612.23 1.2 7,399 5,743 Smirnych   1 13 13 Tomarinski 9,457 3,169.33 3 4,541 4,916 Tomari   1 13 14th Tymowski 16,212 6,312.68 2.6 7,855 8,357 Tymovskoye   1 24 19th Uglegorski 22,537 3,965.55 5.7 18,763 3,774 Uglegorsk Shakhtyorsk 2 15th

Administrative division of Sakhalin Oblast (2004–2011); Numbering see tables (first column)

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Law No. 141-SO of Sakhalin Oblast of December 27, 2011 Introducing amendments to the Sakhalin Oblast Law "On the administrative-territorial structure of Sakhalin Oblast"
2. ↑ ^{a b} number on the card
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Population figures from October 14, 2010 ( Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , p. 12–209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation))
4. ↑ ^{a b} Status: January 1, 2011 ( Sakhalin Oblast in the database of indicators of municipal entities on the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Cities or urban-type settlements
6. ↑ ^{a b} Including rural settlements and other types of rural localities, according to OKATO and OKTMO ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of July 16, 2012 
7. ↑ Town centers (gorodskoje posselenije)
8. ↑ The district of Wachruschew (3), which existed until 2011, was reintegrated into the Poronaiski rajon
9. ↑ ^{a b} The only formally existing village of the Rajon, Baikowo, has no permanent residents
10. ↑ In two municipalities (gorodskoje posselenije) and one rural municipality (selskoje posselenije)