page_title: Kalyazinsky District
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kalyazinsky District / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: The place of former Kaljazin Troitsky Makariev Monastery Русский: Место, на котором раньше стоял Троицкий макарьевский Калязинский монастырь. Сейчас остался лишь остров.
context_page_description: Kalyazinsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Uglichsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast in the northeast, Pereslavsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast in the southeast, Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast in the south, Taldomsky District, also of Moscow Oblast, in the southwest, Kimrsky District in the west, and with Kashinsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 1,671 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Kalyazin. Population: 21,688; 24,460; 27,341. The population of Kalyazin accounts for 63.9% of the district's total population.
context_section_description: The Volga River (built as the Uglich Reservoir) makes the western border of the district, and the whole area of Kalyazinsky District is flat and belongs to the drainage basins of the right tributaries of the Volga. The central and the southern parts of the district belong to the basin of the Nerl River, whereas the rivers in the northern part mainly drain into the Zhabnya River. The town of Kalyazin is located at the mouth of the Zhabnya.
caption: The island in the Uglich Reservoir where the Makaryev Monastery was previously located.
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