Yegorlyksky District (russian: Егорлы́кский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #340-ZS] and municipal
[Law #193-ZS] district (
raion
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), one of the
forty-three in
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populati ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the south of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
rural locality
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(a ''
stanitsa
A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...
'') of
Yegorlykskaya
Yegorlykskaya (russian: Егорлыкская) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') and the administrative center of Yegorlyksky District in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population:
References
Rural lo ...
.
Population: 35,733 (
2010 Census);
The population of Yegorlykskaya accounts for 49.4% of the district's total population.
Notable residents
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Saak Karapetyan (1960–2018), Russian deputy attorney general of Armenian descent, born in the rural settlement of Balko-Gruzskoe
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Fedor Tokarev
Fedor Vasilievich Tokarev (russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич То́карев; 2 June 1871 4 June in old Russian calendarref name=rFedor Tokarev – Brief History Tokarev.com. Retrieved on 2014-02-16. – 6 March 1968) was a Russian wea ...
(1871–1968), weapons designer, deputy of the Supreme Soviet 1937–1950, born in the
stanitsa
A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...
of
Yegorlykskaya
Yegorlykskaya (russian: Егорлыкская) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') and the administrative center of Yegorlyksky District in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population:
References
Rural lo ...
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Notes
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Districts of Rostov Oblast
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