Churapchinsky District (; , ''Çurapçı uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (

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, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

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. It is located in the center of the republic and borders

Tattinsky District Tattinsky District (; , ''Taatta uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the eastern ce ...

in the north,

Ust-Maysky District Ust-Maysky District (; , ''Uus-Maaya uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the ea ...

in the east and southeast,

Amginsky District Amginsky District (; , ''Amma uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in ...

in the south,

Megino-Kangalassky District Megino-Kangalassky District (; , ''Meŋe Xaŋalas uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Rus ...

in the west, and

Ust-Aldansky District Ust-Aldansky District (; , ''Uus-Aldan uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the ...

in the northwest. The area of the district is .Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its

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(a '' selo'') of

Churapcha Churapcha (; , ''Çurapçı'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Churapchinsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: Geography Churapcha is located by the lake of the same name, which drains to the ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 20,387, with the population of Churapcha accounting for 43.0% of that number.

Geography

The landscape of the district is mostly flat.Center of the Socioeconomic and Political Monitoring
Churapchinsky District
The main rivers in the district are the Amga and the Tatta. There are many lakes in the district, the largest of which is Lake Churapcha. Average January temperature is and average July temperature is . Average annual

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is about .

History

The district was established on March 25, 1930.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Churapchinsky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. The district is divided into seventeen rural okrugs (''naslegs'') which comprise thirty rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Churapchinsky Municipal District. Its seventeen rural okrugs are incorporated into seventeen rural settlements within the municipal district.Law #173-Z #354-III The '' selo'' of

serves as the

of both the administrative and municipal district.

Inhabited localities

Demographics

As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows: *

Yakuts The Yakuts or Sakha (, ; , ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to North Siberia, primarily the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation. They also inhabit some districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. They speak Yakut, which belongs to the Si ...

: 98.7% *

Evenks The Evenki, also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, indigenous peoples of the Russi ...

: 0.6% *

Russians Russians ( ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian language, Russian, the most spoken Slavic languages, Slavic language. The majority of Russians adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church ...

: 0.2% *others: 0.5%

Economy

Businesses in the district specialize mainly in agriculture and the raising of cattle and horses.Yakutiatravel.com
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References

Notes

Sources

*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Amginsky District
* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of the Sakha Republic States and territories established in 1930