Melekessky District


Melekessky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-one in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the city of Dimitrovgrad. Population: 36,718 ;

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Melekessky District is one of the twenty-one in the oblast. The city of Dimitrovgrad serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Melekessky Municipal District. The city of oblast significance of Dimitrovgrad is incorporated separately from the district as Dimitrovgrad Urban Okrug.