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Klepikovsky District (russian: Клепико́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #83-OZ district (
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), one of the
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in
Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast ( rus, Рязанская область, r=Ryazanskaya oblast, p=rʲɪˈzanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities ...
,
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. It is located in the north of the
oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...
. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
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
Spas-Klepiki Spas-Klepiki (russian: Спас-Кле́пики) is a town and the administrative center of Klepikovsky District in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located on the Pra River (Oka's tributary) northeast of Ryazan, the administrative center of the oblast. ...
. Population: 25,476 ( 2010 Census); The population of Spas-Klepiki accounts for 23.2% of the district's total population.


Economy and transportation

The
Mesherskoye peat narrow gauge railway The Mesherskoye peat railway is located in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1952, and has a total length of is currently operational; the track gauge is . Current status Mesherskoye peat railway emerged in the 1952s, in ...
serves a
peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...
factory which became operational in 2013.


Notable residents

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Abram Arkhipov Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (russian: Абра́м Ефи́мович Архи́пов; – 25 September 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists. Biogr ...
(1862–1930), realist artist, born in the village of Yegorovo


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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Districts of Ryazan Oblast