Cheboksarsky District (; , ''Şupaşkar rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (

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), one of the twenty-one in the

Chuvash Republic Chuvashia, officially known as Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic languages, Turkic ethnic group. Its capital city, capital i ...

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. It is located in the north of the republic and borders with the

Mari El Republic Mari El,; ; officially the Mari El Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is in the European region of the country, along the northern bank of the Volga River, and administratively part of the Volga Federal District. The republic has a populat ...

in the north,

Mariinsko-Posadsky District Mariinsko-Posadsky District (; , ''Sĕntĕrvărri rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of t ...

in the east, Tsivilsky and Krasnoarmeysky Districts in the south, and with

Morgaushsky District Morgaushsky District (; , ''Murkaş rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic and borders with the Mari El Repub ...

in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

) of Kugesi. Population:

Geography

The

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parts the district into a smaller area in the north and a larger southern area which contains the majority of the population.

History

The district was established on September 5, 1927.

Notable residents

Hyacinth ''Hyacinthus'' is a genus of bulbous herbs, and spring-blooming Perennial plant, perennials. They are fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae and are commonly called hyacinths (). The genus is native predomin ...

(born Nikita Bichurin; 1777–1853), one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology * Mikhail Ignatyev (1962–2020), politician

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Districts of Chuvashia