Kazbekovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district (

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), one of the

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in the

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. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of

Dylym Dylym (, ) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kazbekovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 42,752, with the population of Dylym accounting for 20.2% of that number.

Geography

The district is in rugged terrain in the forested foothills of Degestan, 50 km west of the

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. The average height is 500 to 1,000 meters above sea level, with higher elevations reaching 1,900 meters. There are many river valleys, canyons, and gulleys cutting the landscape with fast-moving streams. The largest river, the

Aktash River The Aktash () is a river in the Kasbek and Khasavyurt districts of the Republic of Daghestan in Caucasian Russia. It is long, with its width varying from 1.5 meters (5 ft) to . It has an overall slope of 14%. Its watershed is . Name ...

, flows from southeast to northwest through the district.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kazbekovsky District is one of the

in the

. It is divided into one

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(an administrative division with the

in the

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(an inhabited locality) of Dubki) and three

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s, which comprise fifteen rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kazbekovsky Municipal District. The settlement is incorporated as an urban settlement, and the three selsoviets are incorporated as eleven rural settlements within the municipal district. The '' selo'' of

serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=October 2012 Districts of Dagestan __NOTOC__