Argayashsky District (russian: Аргая́шский 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 north 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

Argayash Argayash (russian: Аргаяш) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Argayashsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern ...

. Population: 42,808 ( 2002 Census); The population of Argayash accounts for 24.3% of the district's total population. The district was part of the Bashkir Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic until 1934, and together with neighboring

Kunashaksky District Kunashaksky District (russian: Кунашакский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.Resolution #161 It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area o ...

, formed the

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Argayash Canton. The two districts were added to Chelyabinsk Oblast as the

Argayash National Okrug The Argayash National Okrug (russian: Аргая́шский национа́льный о́круг '; ba, Арғаяш милли округы ''Arğayaş milli okrugı''; Bashkir ) was a national ''okrug'' for the Bashkirs of the Chelyabinsk ...

, which itself only survived until November 1934.

Notable people

* Kadir Rakhimovich Timergazin, Soviet geologist

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* * {{Authority control Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast