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Kurchaloyevsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
selo of Kurchaloy

Rural localities
  
20

Founded
  
1935

Federal subject
  
Chechen Republic

rural administration
  
13

Area
  
505 km²

Kurchaloyevsky District

Municipally incorporated as
  
Kurchaloyevsky Municipal District

Kurchaloyevsky District (Russian: Курчалоевский райо́н; Chechen: Курчалойн кӀошт) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the east of the republic. The area of the district is 975 square kilometers (376 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kurchaloy. Population: 114,039 (2010 Census); 101,625 (2002 Census). The population of Kurchaloy accounts for 19.9% of the district's total population.

Contents

Map of Kurchaloyevskiy r-n, Chechnya, Russia

Healthcare

State health facilities are represented by one central district hospital in Kurchaloy and two district hospitals in Tsotsin-Yurt and Alleroy.

Ethnography and notable people

The district is home to Aleroj Teip (associated with the selo of Alleroy), and is a birthplace of both former Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and former Minister of Homeland Security Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev.

References

Kurchaloyevsky District Wikipedia