Kagalnitsky District
district of Rostov Oblast, Russia
Kagalnitsky District (Russian: Кагальницкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,370 square kilometers (530 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Kagalnitskaya. Population: 30,489 (2010 Census); 31,189 (2002 census); 27,901 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Kagalnitskaya accounts for 22.4% of the district's total population.
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Законодательное Собрание Ростовской области. Закон №340-ЗС от 25 июля 2005 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Ростовской области», в ред. Закона №270-ЗС от 27 ноября 2014 г.
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