Prokhladnensky District (russian: Прохла́дненский райо́н; kbd, Прохладнэ къедзыгъуэ; krc, Прохладна район) is an administrativeLaw #12-RZ and a municipalLaw #13-RZ district (

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), one of the ten in the

Kabardino-Balkar Republic The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (russian: Кабарди́но-Балка́рская Респу́блика, ''Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika''; kbd, Къэбэрдей-Балъкъэр Республикэ, ''Ķêbêrdej-Baĺķêr Respublik� ...

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. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Prokhladny Prokhladny (russian: Прохла́дный; masculine), Prokhladnaya (; feminine), or Prokhladnoye (; neuter) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, a town in the Kabardino ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 45,533.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Prokhladnensky District is one of the ten in the

and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its forty-one 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 Prokhladnensky Municipal District. Its forty-one rural localities are incorporated into nineteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of republic significance of Prokhladny is incorporated separately from the district as Prokhladny Urban Okrug, but serves as the administrative center of the municipal district as well.

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