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Sorokinsky District (russian: Соро́кинский райо́н) is an administrative district (
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), one of the twenty-two in
Tyumen Oblast Tyumen Oblast (russian: Тюме́нская о́бласть, ''Tyumenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Western Siberia region of Siberia, and is administratively part of the Urals ...
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.Law #53 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Sorokinsky Municipal District.Law #263 It is located in the east 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
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is the
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(a '' selo'') of Bolshoye Sorokino. Population: 10,254 ( 2010 Census); The population of Bolshoye Sorokino accounts for 51.9% of the district's total population.


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