A rural settlement is a self-governing political division in Russia. A rural settlement is composed of one or more contiguous rural communities : towns, villages, hamlets, farmsteads , exurbs , resorts , villas , stanitsas (Cossack settlements), kishlaks (settlements of Turkic peoples), auls (Caucasian fortified villages), or any other type. Political authority in rural settlements is exercised by the inhabitants, either directly or through elected (or otherwise constituted) bodies.
6-518: Kikerinsky Rural Settlement is a rural settlement in the Volosovsky District of the Leningrad Oblast . Kikerino is the administrative centre. The head of the administration is Kostanyan Igor Razmikovich. This Leningrad Oblast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rural settlement (Russia) A rural settlement is a constituent part of
12-471: A municipal district , a political entity created as part of municipal reforms in 2004. Prior to 2004, the district ( raion ), inherited from the Soviet Union , had been the primary division next lowest below oblast (province). (A municipal district may, in addition to or instead of rural settlements, include urban settlements, which are composed of various urban communities .) The term "rural settlement"
18-480: A rural settlement may consist of either one rural community with a population of 3,000 or more, or several rural communities each with a population less than 3,000. The population of rural settlement usually varies from a few dozen people up to 15,000 or 20,000 inhabitants. There are rural settlements with a population of more than 30,000, and the most populous rural settlement, Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia , had
24-521: Is also used in its generic sense to denote any rural inhabited place. Rural settlement as a formal political division was provided for in the 2003 law "On The General Principles of Organization of Local Government in the Russian Federation", which was promulgated as part of municipal reform. Rural settlements often correspond to a village council of Soviet times, or a parish in the pre-Soviet and post-Soviet periods (for one example among thousands,
30-453: Is defined as taking into account local traditions and existing social infrastructure. The rural settlement is where, in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation, the lowest level representative body is constituted. As a general rule, a rural settlement will consist of either one rural community with a population of 1,000 or more, or several rural communities each with a population less than 1,000. In areas of greater population density,
36-599: The Tyamshanskaya Rural Settlement in the Pskovsky District of Pskov Oblast ). In some areas, the term "village council" is still used as a synonym for "rural settlement", and even still used in formal names of entities (for instance, Novinsky Village Council in the Bogorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ). The rural settlement serves as the administrative center for the locality, which
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