Bessonovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #774-ZPO and municipalLaw #690-ZPO 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 . 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
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