Bessonovsky District

Bessonovsky District (Бессо́новский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is 1249 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Bessonovka. Population: 45,296 (2010 Census); The population of Bessonovka accounts for 25.2% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

 * Vasily Sergeevich Nemchinov (1894–1964), Soviet economist and mathematician, born in the village of Grabovo