Suleyman-Stalsky District
municipal district in Russia
Suleyman-Stalsky District (Russian: Сулейма́н-Ста́льский райо́н; Lezgian: СтӀал Сулейманан район) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is 666.3 square kilometers (257.3 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kasumkent. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 58,835, with the population of Kasumkent accounting for 22.5% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Suleyman-Stalsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into ten selsoviets which comprise thirty-eight rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Suleyman-Stalsky Municipal District. Its ten selsoviets are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Kasumkent serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
“Suleyman-Stalsky District” enters the record as municipal district in Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Suleyman-Stalsky, District and municipal can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38643. VIAF identifies the subject as 123352398. The Library of Congress control number is n2003050435. Authority coordinates are 41.667, 48.133. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.
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