Sholokhovsky District
District in Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Sholokhovsky District (Russian: Шо́лоховский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,536 square kilometers (979 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Vyoshenskaya.[1] Population: 27,294 (2010 Census);[3] 29,629 (2002 census);[6] 30,016 (1989 Soviet census).[7] The population of Vyoshenskaya accounts for 33.9% of the district's total population.[3]
Sholokhovsky District
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Vyoshenskaya, Don River embankment, Sholokhovsky District | |
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 Location of Sholokhovsky District in Rostov Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 49°37′38″N 41°43′34″E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Rostov Oblast[1] |
| Established | 1924 |
| Administrative center | Vyoshenskaya[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,536 km2 (979 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 27,294 |
| • Density | 10.76/km2 (27.88/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Administrative divisions | 9 Rural settlements |
| • Inhabited localities[1] | 52 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Sholokhovsky Municipal District[4] |
| • Municipal divisions[4] | 0 urban settlements, 9 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK [5]) |
| OKTMO ID | 60659000 |
| Website | http://veshki.donland.ru/ |
History
The district was called Vyoshensky (Вёшенский) until 1984, when it was renamed in honor of author Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize-winner, who was from Vyoshenskaya and died earlier that year.[citation needed]