Blagoveshchensky District, Amur Oblast

Blagoveshchensky District (Russian: Благове́щенский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia.

The area of the district is 3,060 square kilometers (1,180 sq mi).

[8] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Blagoveshchensky District is one of the twenty in the oblast.

[1] The city of Blagoveshchensk serves as its administrative center,[2] despite being incorporated separately as an urban okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

[5] Blagoveshchensk Urban Okrug is incorporated separately from the district.