Sharypovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #14-3185 district (

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), one of the forty-three districts in

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. It is located in the southwest of the

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and borders with Bogotolsky District in the north, Nazarovsky and Uzhursky Districts in the east, the

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in the south and southwest, and with

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in the west and northwest. The area of the district is .Official website of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Information about Sharypovsky District
Its

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is the

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of Sharypovo (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population:

History

The district was founded on July 2, 1940.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sharypovsky District is one of the forty-three in the krai. The town of Sharypovo serves as its

, despite being incorporated separately as a krai town—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Law #10-4763 The district is divided into seven

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s. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sharypovsky Municipal District and is divided into seven rural settlements (corresponding to the administrative district's selsoviets). The krai town of Sharypovo is incorporated separately from the district as Sharypovo Urban Okrug.Law #13-3131

Paleontology

A species Sineleutherus issedonicus was described by A. O. Averianov, A. V. Lopatin and S. A. Krasnolutskii in

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. It lived in what is now Sharypovsky District (

) during the middle Jurassic (

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age); its fossils were collected from the upper part of the

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