Korsakovsky District (
Russian:
Корса́ковский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion) of
Sakhalin Oblast,
Russia; one of the
seventeen in the
oblast.
Municipally, it is incorporated as
Korsakovsky Urban Okrug. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,623.6 square kilometers (1,013.0 sq mi). Its
administrative center is the
town of
Korsakov. Population (excluding the administrative center):
7,885 (2010 Russian census);
8,684 (2002 Census);
10,501 (1989 Soviet census).
Historical population| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|
| 1959 | 43,660 | — |
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| 1970 | 47,739 | +9.3% |
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| 1979 | 51,166 | +7.2% |
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| 1989 | 55,597 | +8.7% |
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| 2002 | 45,336 | −18.5% |
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| 2010 | 41,411 | −8.7% |
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| 2021 | 40,798 | −1.5% |
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| Source: Census data |