Salsky District (russian: Са́льский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #340-ZS] and municipal
[Law #233-ZS] 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 co ...
), one of the
forty-three in
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populat ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the south of the
oblast
An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom ...
. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative center 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 administrative language (such as Belgium, L ...
is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
of
Salsk
Salsk (russian: Сальск) is a town and the administrative center of Salsky District in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the Sredny Yegorlyk River ( Don's basin), southeast of Rostov-on-Don, the administrative center of the oblast. Popu ...
.
Population: 107,795 (
2010 Census);
The population of Salsk accounts for 56.9% of the district's total population.
Notable residents
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Feofan Parkhomenko (1893–1962), Soviet Army lieutenant general, born in the village of Yekaterinovka
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Stepan Rybalchenko Stepan Dmitrievich Rybalchenko (russian: Степа́н Дми́триевич Рыба́льченко; 11 July 1903 – 1986) was a Soviet military officer. He was active in the Red Army as a soldier during the Russian Civil War, as a Soviet Air F ...
(1903–1986), Soviet military officer, born in the settlement of Novoyegorylskoye
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Districts of Rostov Oblast Salsky (Salskj) Region (Region) was taken by Germany on 31 07 1942.