Spas-Klepiki (russian: Спас-Кле́пики) is a

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and the

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Klepikovsky District Klepikovsky District (russian: Клепико́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #83-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of ...

Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast ( rus, Рязанская область, r=Ryazanskaya oblast, p=rʲɪˈzanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Ryazan, which is the oblast's largest city. Geo ...

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, located on the

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( Oka's

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) northeast of

Ryazan Ryazan ( rus, Рязань, p=rʲɪˈzanʲ, a=ru-Ryazan.ogg) is the largest city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Cens ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was founded in the 16th century as a settlement of Klepiki () and granted town status in 1920.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Spas-Klepiki serves as the

. As an administrative division, it is, together with eight

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, incorporated within Klepikovsky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Spas-Klepiki. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Spas-Klepiki is incorporated within Klepikovsky Municipal District as Spas-Klepikovskoye Urban Settlement.Law #83-OZ

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* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Ryazan Oblast Ryazansky Uyezd