Vadinsky District

Vadinsky District (Ва́динский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1040 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Vadinsk. Population: 9,807 (2010 Census); The population of Vadinsk accounts for 49.9% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

 * Ivan Mokrousov (1919–1972), Red Army soldier during World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union, born in the village of Rakhmanivka
 * Georg Myasnikov (1926–1996), politician and historian