Bystrinsky District

Bystrinsky District is an administrative and municipal district of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, one of the eleven in the krai. It is located in the southern central part of the krai. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Esso. Population: The population of Esso accounts for 78.6% of the district's total population.

Climate

Bystrinsky District has a subarctic climate. Although the winters are not so cold as in interior Siberia, they are around colder than on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka at the same latitude, so that discontinuous permafrost underlays the region. Precipitation, however, is much less than on the Pacific coast as the moist winds from the northern side of the Aleutian Low dry out before reaching the region.

Demographics

Ethnic composition :

Russians – 50.4%
Evens – 34.5%
Koryaks – 4.9%
Ukrainians – 2.5%
Itelmens – 2.4%
Tatars – 1.4%
Others – 3.9%

Ethnic composition. Roughly 50% of the population is indigenous:

Russians – 49.5%
Evens – 36.7%
Koryaks – 5.1%
Itelmens – 2.9%
Kamchadals – 1.1%
Chukchis – 0.4%
Others – 4.3%