Sedelnikovsky District
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Sedelnikovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #467-OZ and municipalLaw #548-OZ district (
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), one of the thirty-two in
Omsk Oblast Omsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southwestern Siberia. The oblast has an area of . Its population is 1,977,665 (Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census) with the majority, 1.12 million, ...
,
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. It is located in the east of the
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. The area of the district is . Its
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is the
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(a ''
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'') of Sedelnikovo. Population: 10,943 ( 2010 Census); The population of Sedelnikovo accounts for 48.6% of the district's total population.


Geography

The district is situated in the
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, although logging has denuded much of the forest. The biggest rivers flowing through the district are the
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of the
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, including the Uy, the Shaytanka, the
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, and the Maly Shish.


History

Prior to 1582, the area of what is now Sedelnikovsky District was a part of the
Khanate of Sibir The Khanate of Sibir (; ) was a Tatar state in western Siberia. It was founded at the end of the 15th century, following the break-up of the Golden Horde.Сибирское ханство // Большая советская энцикл ...
. That year
Cossack The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Rus ...
ataman Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; ; ) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukra ...
Yermak Timofeyevich Yermak Timofeyevich (, ; 1532 (supposedly) – August 5 or 6, 1585) was a Cossack ataman who started the Russian conquest of Siberia during the reign of the Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible. He is today a hero in Russian folklore and myths. Ru ...
defeated
Kuchum Khan Kuchum Khan ( Turki and , Siberian Tatar: ''Köçöm; Көцөм'', Russian: ''Кучум''; died c. 1601) was the last Khan of Siberia who ruled from 1563 to 1598. Kuchum Khan's attempt to spread Islam and his cross-border raids met with vi ...
at the
Battle of Chuvash Cape The Battle of Chuvash Cape (November 5 ulian calendar, O. S. October 26 1582) led to the victory of a Tsardom of Russia, Russian expedition under Yermak Timofeyevich and the fall of Khanate of Sibir and the end of Khan (title), Khan Kuchum' ...
. Although Yermak was eventually killed after sacking
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to the east, the
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retained control of the region. The area was secured in 1594 when Prince Andrey Yeletsky established a permanent garrison at Tara to the southwest. The first settlement in the area was the village of Sedelnikovo, founded in 1785 by Sedelnikov brothers, who moved here from the village of Ostrovnaya."Седельниковский муниципальный район". Министерство сельского хозяйства и продовольствия Омской области
(''Sedelnikovsky Municipal District. Omsk Ministry of Agriculture and Provision'')
The modern district was established in 1924.


Administrative and municipal divisions

Administratively, the district is divided into eleven rural okrugs (Bakinsky, Golubovsky, Keyzessky, Kukarsky, Novouysky, Ragozinsky, Saratovsky, Sedelnikovsky, Unarsky, Yevlansky, and Yelnichny) comprising thirty-four rural localities. Municipally, the district is incorporated as Sedelnikovsky Municipal District and divided into eleven rural settlements (which correspond to the administrative rural okrugs).


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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Districts of Omsk Oblast