Inhulets (or Inhuletsky) District ('' uk, Інгулецький район'') is the southernmost urban district of

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog ( Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. ...

City, central-southern

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. Named after the river

Inhulets The Inhulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of 557 km and a drainage basin of 14,460 km². The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the wes ...

that flows through the area. In the year 2002, Inhuletsky District absorbed a former town of

now it is an

exclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...

-neighbourhood of Kryvyi Rih. On 2 April 2022 Inhuletsky District was fired at from multiple rocket launchers Whirlwind (''Smerch'') by the invading Russia forces, damaging a gas station, a school and a few private living houses, resulting in no deaths. Later that year, several civillians were killed by rocket attack of Russian troops on the center of the neighborhood Inhulets.

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Urban districts of Kryvyi Rih {{Dnipropetrovsk-geo-stub