Svetlogorsky District

Dar Rajon Swetlogorsk is a Raion in Kaliningrad Oblast.

Geography

The Rajon located in the north of Samland on the Baltic Sea. He is in fact (but not actually ) of two parts, which are separated by the Rajon Selenogradsk. The eastern part is bordered to the north by the Baltic Sea, to the east by the county Pionerski and on the south by Rajon Selenogradsk, while the western part between the Baltic Sea to the west and Rajon Selenogradsk lies to the east and also a short border with the southern city district Jantarny has.

Communities

In Rajon there are three urban communities:

Economy

In Rajon Swetlogorsk tourism has a great importance. So Swetlogorsk is referred to as the Pearl of the Baltic or Northern Sochi.

History

The city Swetlogorsk (noise) (now Rajon Selenogradsk ) spun on 25 July 1947 the then Rajon Primorsk as rajonfreie city, which was managed by a Soviet city. On January 12, 1965, the city Pionerski ( Neukuhren ) and the settlement Soviets Primorje ( United Kuhren ) and Jantarny ( Palvininkai ) were the Swetlogorsker city Soviet regime ( so-called Swetlogorsker Spa Industry Zone, rus. Светлогорская курортно - промышленная зона, Swetlogorskaja kurortno promyschlennaja - sona ). On 22 March 1993, the city Pionerski was removed from this association again and independently within the oblast.

On 15 April 1994 this (residual) association was in the urban district of Swetlogorsk ( Светлогорский городской округ, Swetlogorski Gorodskoi okrug ) converted. As part of local government, the local government unit "settlement Jantarny " (now county Jantarny ) on 25 June 1998 from the (municipal) Stadtkreis Swetlogorsk was outsourced. On 2 November 2007, the county was given the status of a ( local) Rajons. On 10 June 2010, the Rajon was also established administrative- territorial.