Oblivsky District (russian: Обли́вский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #340-ZS] and municipal
[Law #248-ZS] district (
raion
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), one of the
forty-three in
Rostov Oblast,
Russia
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. It is located in the northeast of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
rural locality
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(a ''
stanitsa
A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Ar ...
'') of
Oblivskaya
Oblivskaya (russian: Обливская) is a rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') in Oblivsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Population: It is also the administrative center of Oblivsky District.
History
It is believed that the ''khutor'' ...
.
Population: 18,872 (
2010 Census);
The population of Oblivskaya accounts for 52.5% of the district's total population.
Demographics
In the 2002 Census, 30.34% (5,816 out of 19,167) of the total population of Oblivsky District registered themselves as "Cossack" in the ethnicity column, the highest proportion anywhere in Russia.
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Districts of Rostov Oblast
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