Ardatovsky District (; ''Ordańbuje''; , ''Ardatovań ajmak'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Mordovia, Article 63 and municipalLaw #115-Z district (

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), one of the twenty-two in the

Republic of Mordovia Mordovia ( ),; Moksha and officially the Republic of Mordovia,; ; is a republic of Russia, situated in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Saransk. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the republic was 834,755. Ethnic Russians ( ...

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. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Ardatov Ardatov () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Ardatov (town), Republic of Mordovia, a town in Ardatovsky District of Republic of Mordovia * Ardatov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, a work settlement in Ardatovs ...

.Law #7-Z As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 29,446, with the population of Ardatov accounting for 31.9% of that number.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Ardatovsky District is one of the twenty-two in the republic. It is divided into one

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(

), one work settlement (an administrative division with the

in the work settlement (inhabited locality) of Turgenevo), and twenty-one

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s, all of which comprise fifty-four rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Ardatovsky Municipal District. The town of district significance of Ardatov and Turgenevo Work Settlement are incorporated into two urban settlements, and the twenty-one selsoviets are incorporated into twenty-one rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of Ardatov serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Administrative and municipal status

Notable residents

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