Dolzhansky District (russian: Должа́нский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #522-OZ] and municipal
[Law #445-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-four in
Oryol Oblast
Oryol Oblast (russian: Орло́вская о́бласть, ''Orlovskaya oblast''), also known as Orlovshchina (russian: Орловщина) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is th ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the southeast of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
is the
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) of
Dolgoye.
Population: 11,984 (
2010 Census);
The population of Dolgoye accounts for 37.1% of the district's total population.
Notable residents
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Ivan Ilich Dolgikh
Ivan Ilich Dolgikh (; 1904 – 1 October 1961) was a Soviet police officer, politician, and the head of the Gulag system of labour camps from 1951 to 1954.
Career
Born to a Russian peasant family, in Livensky Uyezd of Oryol Governorate, and ...
(1904–1961), Soviet police officer and politician, head of the Gulag labour camps 1951–1954
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Anatoly Yakunin
Lieutenant-General Anatoly Ivanovich Yakunin (Анатолий Иванович Якунин; born February 11, 1964) is a Russian policeman who was Moscow Police Commissioner (June 2012-September 2016). previously, he was the Chief of Police in N ...
(born 1964), Moscow Police Commissioner 2012–2016, born in the village of Krivtsovo-Plota
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Districts of Oryol Oblast