Naursky District
municipal district in Russia
Naursky District (Russian: Нау́рский райо́н; Chechen: Невран кӀошт, Nevran khoşt) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Chechen Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the republic. The area of the district is 2,225 square kilometers (859 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Naurskaya. Population: 54,752 (2010 census); 51,143 (2002 Census); 46,360 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Naurskaya accounts for 16.5% of the district's total population.
History
In the second half of the 18th century, the area was settled by the Russian and Ukrainian Cossacks. Several stanitsas were founded. In 1771, after being wounded at the siege of Bender, the future Cossack insurgency leader Yemelyan Pugachev came to live at Ishcherskaya with his family.
The modern district was created in 1935 by the order of the Supreme Soviet.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Naursky District” as municipal district in 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 Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1026766. Authority coordinates are 43.650, 45.309. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2002, 1989 and 1771.
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This entry incorporates text from “Naursky 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.