Mikhaylovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #130-KZ district (

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), one of the twenty-two in

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai, informally known as Primorye, is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krais of Russia, krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East. The types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

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. It is located in the southwest 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 rural locality (a '' selo'') of Mikhaylovka. Population: The population of Mikhaylovka accounts for 26.6% of the district's total population. It includes Novoshakhtinsky

and Kremovo, whose airfield was abandoned in 1998.

History

The district was formed on January 4, 1926.Official website of Mikhaylovsky District
History

Notable residents

* Alexander Kabiskoy (1920–1950), Soviet flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union, born in Mikhaylovka * Boris Silayev (born 1946 in Lyalichi), Kyrgyz politician

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