Chebarkulsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (

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), one of the twenty-seven in

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Chebarkul Chebarkul () is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Chebarkul, west of Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Etymology The name of the town derives from the Bashkir/ Tatar words mean ...

(which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 29,251 ( 2002 Census);

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chebarkulsky District is one of the twenty-seven in the oblast. The town of

serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Chebarkulsky Municipal District. The Town of Chebarkul is incorporated separately from the district as Chebarkulsky Urban Okrug.

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* {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Districts of Chelyabinsk Oblast __NOTOC__