Yegorlyksky District
District in Rostov Oblast, Russia
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Yegorlyksky District (Russian: Егорлы́кский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,460 square kilometers (560 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Yegorlykskaya.[1] Population: 35,733 (2010 Census);[3] 36,996 (2002 census);[6] 33,378 (1989 Soviet census).[7] The population of Yegorlykskaya accounts for 49.4% of the district's total population.[3]
Yegorlyksky District
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Train and grain elevators in Yegorlyksky District | |
 Flag .jpg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Yegorlyksky District in Rostov Oblast | |
| Coordinates: 46°33′N 40°39′E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Rostov Oblast[1] |
| Established | 18 January 1935 |
| Administrative center | Yegorlykskaya[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,460 km2 (560 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 35,733 |
| • Density | 24.5/km2 (63.4/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Administrative divisions | 9 rural settlement |
| • Inhabited localities[1] | 36 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Yegorlyksky Municipal District[4] |
| • Municipal divisions[4] | 0 urban settlements, 9 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK [5]) |
| OKTMO ID | 60615000 |
| Website | http://www.egorlykraion.ru/ |
Notable residents
- Saak Karapetyan (1960–2018), Russian deputy attorney general of Armenian descent, born in the rural settlement of Balko-Gruzskoe
- Fedor Tokarev (1871–1968), weapons designer, deputy of the Supreme Soviet 1937–1950, born in the stanitsa of Yegorlykskaya
