title: Ashinsky District
text: # Ashinsky District
  
  Ashinsky District (Russian: Аши́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,792 square kilometers (1,078 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Asha. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district (excluding the administrative center) was 32,898.
  
  ## History
  
  The district was established in 1961.
  
  ## Administrative and municipal status
  
  Within the framework of administrative divisions, it has a status of a town with territorial district—a unit equal in status to administrative districts—the full name of which is The Town of Asha and Ashinsky District (город Аша и Ашинский район). As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Ashinsky Municipal District.
  
  