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Kugarchinsky District

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Coat of arms
  
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Administrative center
  
selo of Mrakovo

Rural localities
  
113

Country
  
Russia

Selsoviets
  
20

Area
  
3,373 km²

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Federal subject
  
Republic of Bashkortostan

Kugarchinsky District (Russian: Кугарчи́нский райо́н; Bashkir: Күгәрсен районы, Kügärsen rayonı) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the republic and borders with Meleuzovsky District in the north, Burzyansky District in the northeast, Zilairsky District in the east, Zianchurinsky District in the south, Orenburg Oblast in the southwest, and with Kuyurgazinsky District in the west. The area of the district is 3,371 square kilometers (1,302 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Mrakovo. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 31,444, with the population of Mrakovo accounting for 27.6% of that number.

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Map of Kugarchinsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

History

The district was established on August 20, 1930.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kugarchinsky District is one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The district is divided into 20 selsoviets, comprising 113 rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kugarchinsky Municipal District. Its twenty selsoviets are incorporated as twenty rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Mrakovo serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Notable people

  • Murtaza Rakhimov (b. 1934), first President of the Republic of Bashkortostan
  • References

    Kugarchinsky District Wikipedia