Poltavsky District (russian: Полта́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #467-OZ and municipalLaw #548-OZ district (

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), one of the thirty-two in

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. It is located in the southwest of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Poltavka. Its 21,772 people ( 2010 Census) account for 32.3% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

Yury Belyayev Yury Viktorovich Belyayev (russian: Юрий Викторович Беляев; born 28 August 1947) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor. He has received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995) and the USSR State ...

(born 1947), film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation *

Mariya Dolina Mariya Ivanovna Dolina ( ua, Марія Іванівна Доліна, russian: Мария Ивановна Долина; 18 December 1922 – 3 March 2010) was a Pe-2 pilot and deputy squadron commander in the women's 125th “Marina M. Raskova� ...

Notable residents

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