Starooskolsky Urban Okrug is a municipal formation (an urban okrug) in Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod Oblast

Belgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: 1,532,670 .-History:...

, 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...

, one of the three urban okrugs in the oblast

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

. Its territory comprises the territories of two administrative divisions of Belgorod Oblast—Starooskolsky District

Starooskolsky District

Starooskolsky District is an administrative district , one of the 21 in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, the territory of the district, together with the territory of the city of oblast significance of Stary Oskol, is incorporated as Starooskolsky Urban Okrug. Its administrative center is the...

 and the city of oblast significance

City 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 Stary Oskol

Stary Oskol

Stary Oskol is a city in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located south of Moscow, on the Oskol River. Population: 221,163 ; 215,898 ; -History:...

.

It was established by the Law #138 of Belgorod Oblast of September 7, 2007 by merging the municipal formations of former Starooskolsky Municipal District into Starooskolsky Urban Okrug.