Rybinsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast
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Rybinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #12-z and municipalLaw #65-z district (
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), one of the seventeen in
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,
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. It is located in the northwest of the
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. The area of the district is . Its
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is the
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of
Rybinsk Rybinsk (, ) is the second-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers, north-north-east of Moscow. Population: It was previously known as '' ...
(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 28,153 ( 2010 Census);
Pavel Batov Pavel Ivanovich Batov (; – April 19, 1985) was a senior Red Army general during the World War II, Second World War and afterwards, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Batov fought in World War I, where he was awarded the Cross of St. George twi ...
was born in Filisovo, a village in the district.


Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Rybinsky District is one of the seventeen in the oblast. The city of
Rybinsk Rybinsk (, ) is the second-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers, north-north-east of Moscow. Population: It was previously known as '' ...
serves as its
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, despite being incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Rybinsky Municipal District. The city of oblast significance of Rybinsk is incorporated separately from the district as Rybinsk Urban Okrug.


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