Surazhsky District

Surazhsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-seven in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the town of Surazh. Population: 27,223 ; The population of Surazh accounts for 50.0% of the district's total population.

Ecological problems

As a result of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986, part of the territory of Bryansk Oblast has been contaminated with radionuclides. In 1999, some 226,000 people lived in areas with the contamination level above 5 Curie/km², representing approximately 16% of the oblast's population.