Coat of Arms of Agapovsky rayon (Chelyabinsk oblast) (1998)

Agapovsky District (russian: Ага́повский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the twenty-seven in

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

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.Resolution #161 It is located in the southwest of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of Agapovka. Population: 37,816 ( 2002 Census); The population of Agapovka accounts for 18.9% of the district's total population.

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* {{Authority control Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast