Gornomariysky District (russian: Горномари́йский райо́н; mhr, Курыкмарий кундем, ''Kurykmarij kundem''; mrj, Кырык мары кымдем, ''Kyryk mary kymdem'') is an administrativeLaw #22-Z and municipalLaw #15-Z district (

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), one of the fourteen in the

Mari El Republic The Mari El Republic (russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, ''Respublika Mariy El''; Meadow Mari: ; Hill Mari: ) is a republic of Russia. It is in the European Russia region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga Rive ...

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. It is located in the west of the republic and is the only district on the right bank of the

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. It borders with Yurinsky District in the north, Kilemarsky District and the Chuvash Republic in the south, and with

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in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Kozmodemyansk Kozmodemyansk (russian: Козьмодемьянск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Kozmodemyansk, Mari El Republic, a town in the Mari El Republic; ;Rural localities * Kozmodemyansk, Sovetsky Distric ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district).Resolution #9 As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 25,869.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Gornomariysky District is one of the fourteen in the republic. It is divided into 10 rural okrugs, comprising 241 rural localities. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Gornomariysky Municipal District. Its ten rural okrugs are incorporated as ten rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of republic significance of Kozmodemyansk is incorporated separately from the district as Kozmodemyansk Urban Okrug, but serves as the administrative center of the municipal district as well.

Demographics

The district is a home of Hill Mari people, and the

Hill Mari language Hill Mari or Western Mari (, ''Mary jÿlmÿ'') is a Uralic language closely related to Northwestern Mari and Meadow Mari. With the first of them Hill Mari joins a Western Mari group. Hill Mari is spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and K ...

is spoken there.

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