Balezinsky District

Balezinsky District (Russian: Балези́нский райо́н; Udmurt: Балезино ёрос, Balezino joros) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia.

[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Balezino.

[4] Rivers flowing through the district include the Cheptsa, the Kep, the Lopya, the Kama, the Pyzep, the Lyuk, and others.

The district was created on July 15, 1929 by merging Balezinskaya and Yagoshurskaya Volosts of Glazovsky Uyezd.

[citation needed] Ethnic composition (according to the 2002 Census): Udmurt people: 57.6%; Russians: 30.9%; Tatars: 9.8%.