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Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast
Encyclopedia
Mezhdurechensk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast
, Russia
. Population:
of Mezhdurechensk—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts
.
Municipally, the territories of the city of oblast significance of Mezhdurechensk and of Mezhdurechensky District
are incorporated as Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug
.
crashed near the city in 1994.
Victory Day celebrations were cancelled in the city in May 2010 after a mine explosion killed at least thirty-one people.
Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast , also known as Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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Administrative and municipal status
Administratively, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significanceCity of federal subject significance
City of federal subject significance is an umbrella term used to refer to a type of an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories.According to the 1993...
of Mezhdurechensk—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts
Administrative divisions of Kemerovo Oblast
*Cities and towns under the oblast's jurisdiction:**Kemerovo ***city districts:****Kirovsky ****Leninsky ****Rudnichny ****Tsentralny ****Zavodsky...
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Municipally, the territories of the city of oblast significance of Mezhdurechensk and of Mezhdurechensky District
Mezhdurechensky District, Kemerovo Oblast
Mezhdurechensky District is an administrative district , one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Mezhdurechensk...
are incorporated as Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug
Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug
Mezhdurechensky Urban Okrug is a municipal formation in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, one of the sixteen urban okrugs in the oblast...
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Events
Aeroflot Flight 593Aeroflot Flight 593
Aeroflot Flight 593 was an AeroflotRussian International Airlines Airbus A310-304 that crashed into a hillside of the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range, Kemerovo Oblast, on . The jet was en route from Sheremetyevo International Airport to Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport with 75 occupants...
crashed near the city in 1994.
Victory Day celebrations were cancelled in the city in May 2010 after a mine explosion killed at least thirty-one people.