Inhuletsky District (') is the southernmost

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Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

city, central-southern

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. Named after the river

Inhulets The Inhulets () or Ingulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the west of Topylo ...

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

, now it is an

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-neighbourhood of Kryvyi Rih.

Russia-Ukrainian War

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 civilians were killed by rocket attack of Russian troops on the center of the neighborhood Inhulets.

Population

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{{Kryvyi Rih municipality Urban districts of Kryvyi Rih