Shkotovsky District (russian: Шко́товский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #192-KZ district (

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), one of the twenty-two in

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the ...

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. It is located in the south of the

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. The area of the district is .
(Official website of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Krai. ''Municipal Formations of Primorsky Krai'') Its

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is the urban locality (an

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) of

Smolyaninovo Smolyaninovo (russian: Смоляни́ново) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located from Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто ...

. Population: The population of Smolyaninovo accounts for 27.4% of the district's total population.

Etymology

Shkotovsky District is named for

Nikolay Shkot Nikolay Yakovlevich Shkot (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Шкот; 26 December 1829 – 1 September 1870) was a Russian sailor and explorer, best known for one of the earliest expeditions of the Russian Far East, and as a founder ...

, a war

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of the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

who participated in the Siege of Sevastopol, and later an early explorer of Primorsky Krai where he was one of the co-founders of

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea ...

Notable residents

Igor Klimov Igor Konstantinovich Klimov (russian: Игорь Константинович Климов; born 1 November 1989) is a Russian football defender. He plays for FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo. Career Klimov made his professional debut for FC Rubin K ...

(born 1989 in

), footballer *

Andrei Kolkoutine Andrei Kolkoutine (russian: Андрей Колкутин born in 1957, in Smolyaninovo, Primorsky Krai) is a Russian artist. In 1982 Kolkoutine graduated at the Repin Academy of Arts in Leningrad, named after Ilya Repin. Currently Kolkoutine l ...

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Notable residents

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