Pugachyovsky District

Pugachyovsky District (Russian: Пугачёвский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Saratov Oblast, Russia.

The area of the district is 3,900.6 square kilometers (1,506.0 sq mi).

[4] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Pugachyovsky District is one of the thirty-eight in the oblast.

[1] The town of Pugachyov serves as its administrative center,[2] despite being incorporated separately as a town under oblast jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts (and which, in addition to Khvalynsk, also includes one rural locality).

[11] As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Pugachyovsky Municipal District,[5] with Pugachyov Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction being incorporated within it as Pugachyov Urban Settlement.