Malokarachayevsky District (; , ''Gitçe Qaraçay rayon''; ) is an administrativeLaw #84-RZ and a municipalLaw #11-RZ district (

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

), one of the

ten Ten, TEN or 10 may refer to: * 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11 * one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910, 2010, 2110 * October, the tenth month of the year Places * Mount Ten, in Vietnam * Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA c ...

in the

Karachay-Cherkess Republic Karachay-Cherkessia (), officially the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus. It is administratively part of the North Caucasian Federal District. As of the 2021 census, Karachay-C ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

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

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

is the

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

(a '' selo'') of

Uchkeken Uchkeken (; , ''Yuçköken'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Malokarachayevsky District in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. Population: Demographics In 2002, the main ethnic groups were: *Karachays: 91 ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 43,318, with the population of Uchkeken accounting for 38.1% of that number.

Administrative and municipal status

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

in the

and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its fourteen rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Malokarachayevsky Municipal District. Its fourteen rural localities are incorporated into ten rural settlements within the municipal district. The '' selo'' of

serves as the

of both the administrative and municipal district.

References

Notes

Sources

* * {{Use mdy dates, date=October 2012 Districts of Karachay-Cherkessia __NOTOC__