Sokolsky District () is an administrative district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...
), one of the
forty in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Ru ...
,
Russia
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. As a
municipal division, it is incorporated as Sokolsky Urban Okrug.
[Resolution #670] It is located in the northwest of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
[Order #3-od] Its
administrative center
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Sokolskoye.
Population: 14,139 (
2010 Census);
The population of Sokolskoye accounts for 44.9% of the district's total population.
History
The district was a part of
Ivanovo Oblast
Ivanovo Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census.
Its three largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, cities are Ivanovo (the administrat ...
until 1994.
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Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
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