Sholokhovsky District (russian: Шо́лоховский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #198-ZS district (

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), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast,

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. It is located in the north of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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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

Vyoshenskaya VyoshenskayaAlso tranliterated Veshenskaya. ( rus, Вёшенская, p=ˈvʲɵʂɨnskəjə), colloquially known as Vyoshki (russian: Вёшки, is a rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') and the administrative center of Sholokhovsky District of ...

. Population: 27,294 ( 2010 Census); The population of Vyoshenskaya accounts for 33.9% of the district's total population.

History

The district was called Vyoshensky () until 1984, when it was renamed in honor of author Mikhail Sholokhov, a

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