Shebekinsky District (russian: Шебекинский райо́н) is an administrative district (

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), one of the twenty-one in

Belgorod Oblast Belgorod Oblast (russian: Белгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Belgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: History At the turn of the 17th c ...

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.Law #248 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Shebekinsky Municipal District.Law #159 It is located in the south 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 Kingdo ...

. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Shebekino Shebekino (russian: Шебе́кино) is a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Nezhegol River, southeast of Belgorod. Population: History It was founded in 1713 and was granted town status in 1938. Administrative and municipal s ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 47,345 ( 2002 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Shebekinsky District is one of the twenty-one in the oblast. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Shebekinsky Municipal District, with the town of oblast significance of Shebekino being incorporated within it as Shebekino Urban Settlement.

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