Oktyabrsky District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug


Oktyabrsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the nine in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the autonomous okrug. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Oktyabrskoye. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 32,224, with the population of Oktyabrskoye accounting for 11.3% of that number.

History

The district was established as Mikoyanovsky District in 1937 within Ostyak–Vogul National Okrug of Omsk Oblast from parts of Beryozovsky and Kondinsky Districts. It was given its present name on November 28, 1957.