Kizlyarsky District (russian: Кизля́рский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #16] and municipal
[Law #6] district (
raion
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), one of the
forty-one in the
Republic of Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia sit ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center
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is the
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Kizlyar
Kizlyar (russian: Кизля́р; av, Гъизляр; kum, Къызлар, ''Qızlar'') is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the border with the Chechen Republic in the delta of the Terek River northwest of Makhachkala, ...
(which is not administratively a part of the district).
[Law #16] As of the
2010 Census, the total population of the district was 67,287.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Kizlyarsky District is one of the
forty-one in the republic.
It is divided into nineteen
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
s, comprising eighty-four
rural localities.
The town of
Kizlyar
Kizlyar (russian: Кизля́р; av, Гъизляр; kum, Къызлар, ''Qızlar'') is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the border with the Chechen Republic in the delta of the Terek River northwest of Makhachkala, ...
serves as its
administrative center
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, despite being incorporated separately as an
administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kizlyarsky Municipal District.
Its nineteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-two rural settlements within the municipal district.
The Town of Kizlyar is incorporated separately from the district as Kizlyar Urban Okrug,
but serves as the administrative center of the municipal district as well.
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Districts of Dagestan
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