Shatsky District (russian: Ша́цкий райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #101-OZ district (

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), one of the

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Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast ( rus, Рязанская область, r=Ryazanskaya oblast, p=rʲɪˈzanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities ...

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. It is located in the southeast of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of Shatsk. Population: 24,414 ( 2010 Census); The population of Shatsk accounts for 26.9% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

* Gennadi Bogachyov (born 1945 in Shatsk), stage and film actor *

Ivan Zakharkin Ivan Grigorevich Zakharkin (russian: Васи́Иван Григорьевич Захаркин) (January 27, 1889 – October 15, 1944) was a Soviet colonel general in the Red Army during World War II, commander of the 49th Army during the Battle o ...

Notable residents

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