Mezensky District, the Glossary

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1. 63 relations: Administrative centre, Administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Administrative divisions of Russia in 1708–1710, Archangelgorod Governorate, Arctic Circle, Arkhangelsk Governorate, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Barents Sea, Border Security Zone of Russia, Bychye, Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, Dolgoshchelskoye Rural Settlement, Dorogorskoye, Drainage basin, Estuary, Federal Security Service, Kamenka, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Kamenka, Russia, Kimzha (river), Kimzha (rural locality), Komi peoples, Komi Republic, Kuloy (White Sea), Lake Varsh, Leshukonskoye, Leshukonsky District, Mezen (river), Mezen Airport, Mezen Bay, Mezen horse, Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Mezensky Uyezd, Morzhovets Island, Nemnyuga, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Northern Krai, Northern Oblast (1936–1937), Novgorod Republic, Oblast, Pechora (river), Peter the Great, Pinega, Pinezhsky District, Pravda Severa, Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Principality of Moscow, Pyoza, Raion, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia, ... Expand index (13 more) »

2. Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.

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Administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Arkhangelsk Oblast is divided into six cities and towns of oblast significance, twenty-one districts, and two island territories (Franz Joseph Land and Victoria Island).

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Administrative divisions of Russia in 1708–1710

The administrative division reform of 1708 was carried out by Russian Tsar Peter the Great in an attempt to improve the manageability of the vast territory of Russia.

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Archangelgorod Governorate

Archangelgorod Governorate (Arkhangelogorodskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, which existed from 1708 until 1780.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Arkhangelsk Governorate

Arkhangelsk Governorate (Arkhangel'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929.

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Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Border Security Zone of Russia

A Border Security Zone in Russia is the designation of a strip of land (usually, though not always, along a Russian external border) where economic activity and access are restricted in line with the Frontier Regime Regulations set by the Federal Security Service (FSB).

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Bychye

Bychye (Бычье) is a rural locality (a village) and the administrative center of Bychenskoye Rural Settlement of Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Classification of inhabited localities in Russia

The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries.

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Dolgoshchelskoye Rural Settlement

Dolgoshchelskoye Rural Settlement (Долгощельское сельское поселение) is a rural settlement in the Mezensky Municipal District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in northern Russia.

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Dorogorskoye

Dorogorskoye (Дорого́рское) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Dorogorskoye Rural Settlement of Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Kamenka, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Kamenka (Ка́менка) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Mezen River at the mouth of the Kamenka River (hence the name of the settlement), some northwest of Mezen.

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Kamenka, Russia

Kamenka (Ка́менка) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

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Kimzha (river)

The Kimzha (Кимжа) is a river in Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Kimzha (rural locality)

Kimzha (Кимжа) is a village in Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Komi peoples

The Komi (komijas also komi-vojtyr) are an Indigenous Permian ethnic group whose homeland is in the northeast of European Russia around the basins of the Vychegda, Pechora and Kama rivers.

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Komi Republic

The Komi Republic (Республика Коми; Коми Республика), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republic of Russia situated in the northeast of European Russia.

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Kuloy (White Sea)

The Kuloy (Кулой) is a river in Pinezhsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Lake Varsh

Lake Varsh (озеро Варш) is a freshwater lake, shared by Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia, just below the Arctic Circle.

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Leshukonskoye

Leshukonskoye (Лешуконское) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Leshukonsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vashka River.

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Leshukonsky District

Leshukonsky District (Лешуко́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Mezensky District and Leshukonsky District are districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

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Mezen (river)

The Mezen (Мезень; Komi: Мозын, Mozyn) is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and in Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Mezen Airport

Mezen Airport is an airport in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia located 4 km north of Mezen.

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Mezen Bay

The Mezen Bay (Мезенская губа) is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Northwestern Russia.

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Mezen horse

The Mezen horse or Mezenok is a Russian breed of draft horse similar to the Pechora.

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Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Mezen (Мезе́нь) is a town and the administrative center of Mezensky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Mezen River close to the point where it flows into the White Sea.

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Mezensky Uyezd

Mezensky Uyezd (Мезенский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Arkhangelsk Governorate of the Russian Empire.

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Morzhovets Island

Morzhovets Island (Остров Моржовец) is an island located in Mezen Bay of the White Sea.

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Nemnyuga

The Nemnyuga (Немнюга) is a river in Leshukonsky, Pinezhsky, and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Nenets Autonomous Okrug

The Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг; Nyeneciye” awtonomnoy okruk’) is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

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Northern Krai

Northern Krai (Severny Krai) was an administrative-territorial unit (krai) of the Russian SFSR from 1929 to 1936.

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Northern Oblast (1936–1937)

Northern Oblast (Severnaya oblast) was an administrative-territorial unit (oblast) of the Russian SFSR from 1936 to 1937.

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Novgorod Republic

The Novgorod Republic (Novgorodskaya respublika) was a medieval state that existed from the 12th to 15th centuries in northern Russia, stretching from the Gulf of Finland in the west to the northern Ural Mountains in the east.

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Oblast

An oblast (plural oblasts, oblasti, or rarely oblasty; Russian and oblast'; voblasc'; oblast; oblys; oblus) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

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Pechora (river)

The Pechora (Печо́ра; Komi: Печӧра; Nenets: Санэроˮ яха) is the sixth-longest river in Europe.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Pinega

Pinega (Пинега) is a rural locality (a settlement), formerly a town, in Pinezhsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Pinega River (hence the name).

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Pinezhsky District

Pinezhsky District (Пи́нежский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Mezensky District and Pinezhsky District are districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

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Pravda Severa

Pravda Severa (lit) is a Russian Arkhangelsk-based newspaper, published since 1917.

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Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Primorsky District (Примо́рский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Mezensky District and Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast are districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast.

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Principality of Moscow

The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.

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Pyoza

The Pyoza (Пёза) is a river in Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Raion

A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states.

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Rossiyskaya Gazeta

(lit) is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Selsoviet

A selsoviet (sieł'saviet; sel'sovet,; sil'rada) is the shortened name for a rural council (се́льскi саве́т; се́льский сове́т; сільська́ ра́да) and for the area governed by such a council (soviet).

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Soyana (river)

The Soyana (Сояна) is a river in Primorsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Taiga

Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.

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Town of district significance

Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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Ural Mountains

The Ural Mountains (p), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through the Russian Federation, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.

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Uralic languages

The Uralic languages, sometimes called the Uralian languages, form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.

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Ust-Tsilemsky District

Ust-Tsilemsky District (Усть-Ци́лемский райо́н; Чилимдiн район, Ćilimdïn rajon) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia.

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Vologda Viceroyalty

Vologda Viceroyalty (Vologodskoye namestnichestvo) was an administrative-territorial unit (namestnichestvo) of the Russian Empire, which existed in 1780–1796.

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White Sea

The White Sea (Beloye more; Karelian and lit; Serako yam) is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia.

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Windmill

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

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Winter road

A winter road is a seasonal road only usable during the winter, i.e. it has to be re-built every year.

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See also

Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast

• Bolshezemelsky District
• Kargopolsky District
• Kholmogorsky District
• Konoshsky District
• Kotlassky District
• Krasnoborsky District
• Lensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
• Leshukonsky District
• Mezensky District
• Nyandomsky District
• Onezhsky District
• Pinezhsky District
• Plesetsky District
• Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast
• Shenkursky District
• Solovetsky District
• Ustyansky District
• Velsky District
• Verkhnetoyemsky District
• Vilegodsky District
• Vinogradovsky District

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezensky_District

Also known as Mezenski District, Mezenski Raion, Mezenskii District, Mezenskii Raion, Mezenskiy District, Mezenskiy Raion, Mezensky Municipal District, Mezensky Raion.

, Selsoviet, Soyana (river), Taiga, Town of district significance, Tributary, Tundra, Ural Mountains, Uralic languages, Ust-Tsilemsky District, Vologda Viceroyalty, White Sea, Windmill, Winter road.