Alexandrovsky District (russian: Алекса́ндровский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #130-OZ] and municipal
[Law #61-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
sixteen in
Vladimir Oblast
Vladimir Oblast (russian: Влади́мирская о́бласть, ''Vladimirskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its closest border 66 Meter, km east of central Moscow, the administrative cen ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the west of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Alexandrov.
Population: 55,207 (
2002 Census);
The population of Alexandrov accounts for 53.9% of the total district's population.
People
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Sergey Elpatyevsky
Sergey Yakovlevich Elpatyevsky (russian: Серге́й Я́ковлевич Елпа́тьевский), November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian Empire and Soviet writer and doctor.
Early life
Elpatyevsky was born in the village o ...
(1854-1933)
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Nikolay Iyezuitov (1899-1941)
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Pavel Kuznetsov
Pavel Varfolomevich Kuznetsov (1878–1968) was a Russian painter and graphic artist.
Life and career
He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891–1896), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and f ...
(born 1961)
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Districts of Vladimir Oblast