Ust-Ishimsky 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 northwest of the

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. The area of the district is .} Its

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is the

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(a '' selo'') of

Ust-Ishim Ust-Ishim (, Siberian Tatar language, Siberian Tatar: Ишим-Кала) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') and the administrative center of Ust-Ishimsky District, Omsk Oblast, Russia. Pop ...

, which, as its name indicates, is located at the confluence of the

Ishim River The Ishim (; ) is a river running through Kazakhstan and Russia. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Its average discharge is . It is a left tributary of the Irtysh. The Ishim is partly navigable in its lower reaches. The upper course o ...

with the

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. Population: 13,480 ( 2010 Census); The population of Ust-Ishim accounts for 35.6% of the district's total population. The

Ust'-Ishim man Ust'-Ishim man is the term given to the 45,000-year-old remains of one of the early modern humans to inhabit western Siberia. The fossil is notable in that it had intact DNA which permitted the complete sequencing of its genome, one of the old ...

, an ancient skeleton dated to 45,000 years before present, was discovered on the bank of the

Irtysh River The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world. The river's source lies in the Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern part of Xinjiang, China) cl ...

in Ust-Ishimsky District.

Notable residents

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Notable residents

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