Cheremisinovsky District
Cheremisinovsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Cheremisinovo. Population: 12,431 (2002 Census); The population of Cheremisinovo accounts for 36.8% of the district's population. Geography. Cheremisinovsky District is located in the north-east of Kursk Oblast, on the border with Oryol Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain averaging 200 meters above sea level; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau  of the Central Russian Upland. The district is 60 km northeast of the city of Kursk, and 480 km south of Moscow. The area measures 37 km (north-south), and 27 km (west-east). The administrative center is the town of Cheremisinovo. The district is bordered on the north by Dolzhansky District of Oryol Oblast, on the east by Sovetsky District, Kursk Oblast, on the south by Timsky District, and on the west by Shchigrovsky District.