Verkhnetoyemsky District
Verkhnetoyemsky District
Верхнетоемский район | |
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Landscape in Verhnetoymesky District | |
Location of Verkhnetoyemsky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 61°15′N 46°39′E / 61.250°N 46.650°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Arkhangelsk Oblast |
| Established | April 10, 1924 |
| Administrative center | Verkhnyaya Toyma |
| Area | |
• Total | 20,400 km2 (7,900 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 17,060 |
| • Density | 0.84/km2 (2.2/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Administrative divisions | 14 Selsoviets |
| • Inhabited localities | 287 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Verkhnetoyemsky Municipal District |
| • Municipal divisions | 0 urban settlements, 8 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK ) |
| OKTMO ID | 11508000 |
| Website | http://www.vtojma.ru |
Verkhnetoyemsky District (Russian: Верхнето́емский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Verkhnetoyemsky Municipal District. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Pinezhsky District in the north, Udorsky District of the Komi Republic in the east, Krasnoborsky and Ustyansky Districts in the south, Shenkursky District in the west, and with Vinogradovsky District in the northwest. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Verkhnyaya Toyma. District's population: 17,060 (2010 Census); 22,630 (2002 Census); 27,989 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Verkhnyaya Toyma accounts for 20.3% of the district's total population.