Ryazhsky District () is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #92-OZ district (

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), one of the twenty-five in

Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Ryazan, which is also the oblast's largest city. Geography Ryazan Oblast ...

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. It is located in the south of the

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. The area of the district is . Its

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is the

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Ryazhsk Ryazhsk () is a town and the administrative center of Ryazhsky District in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located south of Ryazan, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 26,000 (1974). History It has been known to exist since 1502. I ...

. Population: 29,026 ( 2010 Census); The population of Ryazhsk accounts for 74.7% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

Boris Novikov Boris Kuzmich Novikov (; 13 July 1925, Ryazhsk, Ryazan Governorate, RSFSR — 25 July 1997, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema. People's Artist of Russia (1994). Biography Boris Kuzmich Novikov was born on 13 July 1925 in a famil ...

(1925–1997), Soviet stage and film actor, People's Artist of Russia, born in Ryazhsk

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Districts of Ryazan Oblast