Town of district significanceis anadministrative divisionof adistrictin afederal subjectofRussia.It is equal in status to aselsovietor anurban-type settlement of district significance,but is organized around atown(as opposed to a rural locality or anurban-type settlement); often with surrounding rural territories.
Background
editPrior to the adoption of the 1993Constitution of Russia,this type of administrative division was defined on the whole territory of theRussian SFSRas an inhabited locality which serves as a cultural and an industrial center of a district and has a population of at least 12,000, of which at least 80% are workers, public servants, and the members of their families.[1]After the adoption of the 1993 Constitution, the administrative-territorial structure of the federal subjects is no longer identified as the responsibility of the federal government or as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the federal subjects.[2]This state of the matters is traditionally interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions are the sole responsibility of the federal subjects themselves.[2]As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another; that includes the manner in which the towns of district significance are organized and the choice of a term to refer to such entities.
As an administrative division
editAs of 2013, the following types of such entities are recognized:
- District town(районный город): inKrasnoyarsk Krai
- Settlement municipal formation(муниципальное образование со статусом поселения): inLeningrad Oblast
- Town(город): in theRepublic of Buryatia,theRepublic of Kalmykia,and theSakha Republic;inKrasnodarandStavropol Krais;inChelyabinsk,Ivanovo,Kirov,Moscow,Murmansk,andNovosibirsk Oblasts
- Town administration(городская администрация): in theChechen Republic
- Town of district significance(город районного значения): in theMari El Republic,theRepublic of Mordovia,theRepublic of Tatarstan,and theUdmurt Republic;inAltai Krai;inArkhangelsk,Astrakhan,Kaliningrad,Kemerovo,Kostroma,Kursk,Nizhny Novgorod,Novgorod,Oryol,Penza,Ryazan,Tambov,Ulyanovsk,Volgograd,Vologda,andYaroslavl Oblasts
- Town of district significance administrative territory(административная территория – город районного значения): in theKomi Republic
- Town under district jurisdiction(город районного подчинения): in theRepublic of North Ossetia–Alania;inKurgan,Lipetsk,andTula Oblasts
- Town under district jurisdiction (urban settlement)(город кожуунного подчинения (городское поселение):in theTyva Republic
- Urban administrative okrug(городской административный округ): inBryansk Oblast
- Urban settlement(городское поселение): in theChuvash Republicand theRepublic of North Ossetia–Alania;inAmur,Rostov,Smolensk,andVoronezh Oblasts
As an inhabited locality
editSome federal subjects of Russia, for example theSakha Republic,[3]also use the term "town of district significance" to refer to atype of an urban localityinstead of an administrative division. Confusingly, the Sakha Republic uses the term "town" to refer to a type of an administrative division.[3]
References
edit- ^Иванец Г.И., Калинский И.В., Червонюк В.И. Конституционное право России: энциклопедический словарь / Под общей ред. В.И. Червонюка. — М.: Юрид. лит., 2002. — 432 с. Статья "Город районного значения"
- ^ab"Энциклопедический словарь конституционного права". Статья "Административно-территориальное устройство". Сост. А. А. Избранов. — Мн.: Изд. В.М. Суров, 2001.
- ^abLaw #77-I
Sources
edit- Палата Представителей Государственного Собрания (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №77-I от 6 июля 1995 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1426-З №407-V от 26 марта 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статьи 7 и 9 Закона Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Республики Саха (Якутия)" ». Опубликован: "Якутские ведомости", №24, 2 августа 1995 г.(House of Representatives of theState Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.Law #77-I of July 6, 1995On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic,as amended by the Law #1426-Z No. 407-V of March 26, 2015On Amending Articles 7 and 9 of the Law of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic".).