Ardatovsky District () is an administrative district (

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), one of the forty in

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.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Ardatovsky Municipal District.Resolution #670 It is located in the southwest of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the urban locality (a work settlement) of

Ardatov Ardatov () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Ardatov (town), Republic of Mordovia, a town in Ardatovsky District of Republic of Mordovia * Ardatov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a work settlement in Ardatovs ...

. Population: 26,428 ( 2010 Census); The population of Ardatov accounts for 36.2% of the district's total population.

History

The district was established in 1929.

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast States and territories established in 1929 Ardatovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast __NOTOC__