Cherepanovsky District (russian: Черепа́новский райо́н) is an administrative and municipalLaw #200-OZ district (

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), one of the thirty in

Novosibirsk Oblast Novosibirsk Oblast (russian: Новосиби́рская о́бласть, ''Novosibirskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southwestern Siberia. Its administrative and economic center is the city of Novosibi ...

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. It is located in the southeast of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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of Cherepanovo. Population: 47,842 ( 2010 Census); The population of Cherepanovo accounts for 41.4% of the district's total population.

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* {{Use mdy dates, date=August 2012 Districts of Novosibirsk Oblast