Apastovsky District
municipal district in Tatarstan, Russia
Apastovsky District (Russian: Апа́стовский райо́н; Tatar: Апас районы) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the southwest of the region. The territory of the district includes 72 settlements. As of 2020, 19,512 people reside in the region. Administrative centre is the urban-type settlement Apastovo.
Geography
The Apastovsky District is located in the historical region "Hill Bank Land" or Taw yağı of the Golden Horde, Khanate of Kazan and Kazan Governorate. It shares borders with Buinsky District, Tetyushskyy, Kamsko-Ustyinsky, Verkhneuslonsky and Kaybitsky districts of the republic, as well as with the Yalchiksky districts of Chuvashia.
The western part of the district is located on the slope of the Tokmovsky tectonic arch, the rest of the region is on the southwestern side of the Kazan-Kirov trough. The district topography is a hilly plain. All waterways of the territory are part of the Sviyaga basin.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Apastovsky District” as municipal district in Tatarstan, Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipal district in Tatarstan, Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2220531. Authority coordinates are 55.203, 48.508. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Apastovsky District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.