Nemansky District, Kaliningrad Oblast

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Nemansky District (Russian: ) is a district (raion) of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The district's administrative center is Neman. District's population: 22,536 (2002 Census).

The district borders to Lithuania along the Neman River. It surrounds the town of Sovetsk, which is not part of the district. The railway line from Chernyakhovsk to Sovetsk passes through the district, as well as a cargo line from Sovetsk to Neman, and the main road Kaliningrad–Talpaki–Sovetsk, which carries the major part of traffic to St. Petersburg via Lithuania and Latvia.

Nemansky District is populated sparsely, forests and steppe pasture-land prevail.

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