Veshkaymsky District

Veshkaymsky District (Russian: Вешка́ймский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia.

It is located in the western central part of the oblast.

The area of the district is 1,435.5 square kilometers (554.2 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Veshkayma.

[8] The population of the administrative center accounts for 33.4% of the district's total population.