Kurilsky_District
Kurilsky District
District in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
See also: Kurilsky (disambiguation)
Kurilsky District (Russian: Кури́льский райо́н, romanized: Kuríl'skiy rayón) is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast.[1] Municipally, it is incorporated as Kurilsky Urban Okrug.[5] It is located on the central Kuril Islands southeast of the Island of Sakhalin. The area of the district is 5,145.9 square kilometers (1,986.8 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the town of Kurilsk.[1] Population: 7,359 (2010 Russian census);[3] 7,108 (2002 Census);[7] 10,498 (1989 Soviet census).[8] The population of Kurilsk accounts for 28.1% of the district's total population.[3] The name is sometimes spelled Kurliskiy or Kurliskiye in English.