Yergeni ( Ергени ; Oirat : Ergnin җirn zurһan shiir ) is a hilly area in Russia. It is located in the southern corner of the East European Plain , mostly in Kalmykia , with parts in Volgograd Oblast and Rostov Oblast . The highest point of Kalmykia, 222 metres (728 ft) high Shared , is located in the Yergeni hills.
21-504: In Kalmykia the hills stretch from Sarpinsky District to the north to Iki-Burulsky District in the south. A thorough topographic survey of the Yergeni was carried out in 1860-61 by Russian topographer Ivan Krizhin , who drew the first maps of the area. The Volga–Don Canal was built across the northern part of the hill area in 1952. The Yergeni area forms the watershed between the Azov and
42-424: A part of municipal formations are known as inter-settlement territories [ ru ] , a concept introduced in 2019. The Federal Law was amended on 27 May 2014 to include new types of municipal divisions: In June 2014, Chelyabinsky Urban Okrug became the first urban okrug to implement intra-urban divisions. Federal legislation introduced on May 1, 2019, added an additional territorial unit: All
63-477: Is located in the northwest of Kalmykia, in the area of the Yergeni hills. It borders with Maloderbetovsky District in the northeast, Ketchenerovsky District in the southeast, Zavetinskiy District of Rostov Oblast in the southwest, and with Kotelnikovsky and Oktyabrsky districts of Volgograd Oblast in the west. The area of the district is 3,737.63 square kilometers (1,443.11 sq mi). The district
84-687: The Caspian seas. The hills lie to the west of the lower course of the Volga , between Volgograd to the north and the Manych Depression to the south. The eastern slopes rise abruptly from the Caspian Lowland dissected by numerous ravines, with up to 70 metres (230 ft) to 80 metres (260 ft) high escarpments. The western slope, on the other hand, gradually descends to the Don valley. The average elevation of
105-706: The Chukotka Autonomous Okrug being the only exception). On 18 March 2014, as a part of the annexation of Crimea and following the establishment of the Republic of Crimea (an independent entity that was recognized only by Russia), a treaty was signed between Russia and the Republic of Crimea incorporating the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol as constituent members of the Russian Federation. According to
126-765: The Donetsk People's Republic , the Kherson Oblast , the Lugansk People's Republic , the federal city of Sevastopol , and the Zaporozhye Oblast —are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine . All federal subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council ( upper house of the Federal Assembly ). They do, however, differ in
147-577: The invasion of Ukraine that began in late February, which were organized by Russian occupation authorities in territories where hostilities were ongoing and much of the population had fled. It occurred seven months after the start of the invasion and less than a month after the start of the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive . The signing ceremony was held in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow in
168-428: The thirteen in the Republic of Kalmykia , Russia . It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is 3,737.63 square kilometers (1,443.11 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo ) of Sadovoye . As of the 2010 Census , the total population of the district was 13,796, with the population of Sadovoye accounting for 47.3% of that number. The district
189-747: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 17 August 1982 "On the Procedures of Dealing with the Matters of the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the RSFSR". The 1993 Constitution, however, did not identify the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions as the responsibility of the federal government nor as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the subjects. This
210-547: The Treaty, the Republic of Crimea is accepted as a federal subject with the status of a republic while the City of Sevastopol has received federal city status. Neither the Republic of Crimea nor the city of Sevastopol are politically recognized as parts of Russia by most countries . Similarly, Russia also annexed four Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk , Kherson , Luhansk , and Zaporozhzhia on 30 September 2022 after internationally-unrecognized referendums held days prior, during
231-461: The animals found in the hills are the demoiselle crane , the eastern imperial eagle , steppe eagle , red-footed falcon , white-winged lark and the javelin sand boa . This Kalmykia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sarpinsky District Sarpinsky District ( Russian : Сарпи́нский райо́н ; Kalmyk : Сарпан район , Sarpan rayon ) is an administrative and municipal district ( raion ), one of
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#1732852093338252-458: The degree of autonomy they enjoy. De jure, excluding the occupied Ukrainian territories, there are 6 types of federal subjects—21 republics , 9 krais , 46 oblasts , 2 federal cities , 1 autonomous oblast , and 4 autonomous okrugs . Autonomous okrugs are the only ones that have a peculiar status of being federal subjects in their own right, yet at the same time they are considered to be administrative divisions of other federal subjects (with
273-477: The federal and regional bodies of law, and ensure governmental control over the civil service, judiciary, and federal agencies operating in the regions. The federal district system was established on 13 May 2000. Since 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation has consisted of eighty-nine federal subjects that are constituent members of the Federation. However, six of these federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea ,
294-616: The federal subjects are grouped into eight federal districts, each administered by an envoy appointed by the President of Russia . The envoys serve as liaisons between the federal subjects and the federal government and are primarily responsible for overseeing the compliance of the federal subjects with federal laws. For economic and statistical purposes the federal subjects are grouped into twelve economic regions. Economic regions and their parts sharing common economic trends are in turn grouped into economic zones and macrozones . In order for
315-506: The following types of high-level administrative divisions are recognized: Autonomous okrugs and okrugs are intermediary units of administrative divisions, which include some of the federal subject's districts and cities/towns/urban-type settlements of federal subject significance. Typical lower-level administrative divisions include: In the course of the Russian municipal reform of 2004–2005, all federal subjects of Russia were to streamline
336-452: The hills is about 160 metres (520 ft). The Sal , a left tributary of the Don, is the main river having its sources in the hills. The climate is semi-desert and the hills are mostly covered with grasses and shrubs, including feather grass , Volga fescue , wormwood and saltwort , but some trees, such as willow, oak, elm, and aspen, may grow in the ravines of the eastern slopes. Some of
357-534: The municipal district. The selo of Sadovoye serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district. Subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions Russia is divided into several types and levels of subdivisions. The federal districts are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia. Federal districts are not mentioned in the nation's constitution, do not have competences of their own, and do not manage regional affairs. They exist solely to monitor consistency between
378-453: The presence of occupation authority heads Leonid Pasechnik , Denis Pushilin , Yevgeny Balitsky , and Vladimir Saldo , and Russian President Vladimir Putin . Like Crimea, none of the four occupied regions are internationally recognized as part of Russia. Prior to the adoption of the 1993 Constitution of Russia , the administrative-territorial structure of Russia was regulated by the Decree of
399-492: The structures of local self-government, which is guaranteed by the Constitution of Russia . The reform mandated that each federal subject was to have a unified structure of municipal government bodies by 1 January 2005, and a law enforcing the reform provisions went into effect on 1 January 2006. According to the law, the units of the municipal division (called " municipal formations ") are as follows: Territories not included as
420-432: Was established in 1920. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Sarpinsky District is one of the thirteen in the Republic of Kalmykia . The district is divided into nine rural administrations which comprise seventeen rural localities . As a municipal division , the district is incorporated as Sarpinsky Municipal District . Its nine rural administrations are incorporated as nine rural settlements within
441-415: Was interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions became solely the responsibility of the federal subjects. As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another. While the implementation details may be considerably different, in general, however,
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