City of district significance (or importance) is a type of an administrative division in some countries of the former Soviet Union. in Russia; see town of district significance in Ukraine; see city of district significance (Ukraine)

"Town of district significance" is a convenient way to overview the whole concept without going into those details, but since the term is essentially descriptive, it was not presented in the lede as if it were an "official" designation for the whole concept.

A city of district significance (Ukrainian: місто районного значення, misto raionnoho znachennia) is a special category of city municipalities within each of the rural raions (districts) of Ukraine's first-level of administrative divisions. These cities are subordinate to the raion authorities and derive their powers from them.

Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a rural locality or an urban-type settlement ); often with surrounding rural territories.

The word town can also be used as a general term for urban areas, including cities and in a few cases, districts within cities. In this usage, a city is a type of town; a large one, with a certain status. For example, central Greater London is sometimes …

Main article: District (PRC) In mainland China, the district ( Chinese: 市辖区; pinyin: shìxiá qū) is a subdivision of any of various city administrative units, including municipalities, sub-provincial cities, and prefecture-level cities. Districts have county level status. Modern districts are …

History. The site of what is now the city of The Dalles was a major Native American trading center. The general area is one of the continent's most significant archaeological regions. Lewis and Clark camped near Mill Creek on October 25–27, 1805, and recorded the Indian name for the creek as Quenett.. Etymology. The name of the city comes from the French word dalle, …

Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a rural locality or an urban-type settlement); often with surrounding rural territories.

History. Magadan was founded in 1930 in the Magadanka River valley, near the settlement of Nagayevo.During the Stalin era, Magadan was a major transit center for political prisoners sent to slave camps. From 1932 to 1953, it was the administrative center of the Dalstroy organization—a vast slave-labor gold-mining operation and forced-labor camp system. . The first director of …