Grayvoronsky District
Grayvoronsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Grayvoronsky Municipal District. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Grayvoron. Population:  31,567 (2002 Census). The population of Grayvoron accounts for 21.4% of the district's total population. History 

The district was formerly part of Grayvoronsky Uyezd, which had an area of about . In May 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the governor of Belgorod Oblast, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that Ukrainian "sabotage groups" entered the region from Ukraine. Ukrainian media reported that the cross-border excursion was performed by Russian rebel opposition groups, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion. Geography
Grayvoronsky District sits at the southwest corner of Belgorod Oblast, on the border with Ukraine. It is bordered on the south and west by Kharkiv Oblast and Sumy Oblast (both of Ukraine), on the north by Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast and Rakityansky District, and on the east by Borisovsky District. The administrative center of the district is the town of Grayvoron. The district is  west of the city of Belgorod, and is  northwest of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The terrain is a hilly plain averaging  above sea level; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland. The major river through the district is the Vorskla River, which flows east to west through the district, eventually joining the Dnieper River. References

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External links
Grayvoronsky District on Google Maps
Grayvoronsky District on OpenStreetMap

 
Districts of Belgorod Oblast