Syktyvdinsky District
municipal district in Russia
Syktyvdinsky District (Russian: Сыктывдинский райо́н; Komi: Сыктывдін район, Syktyvdïn rajon) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twelve in the Komi Republic, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 7,405 square kilometers (2,859 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Vylgort. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 22,660, with the population of Vylgort accounting for 45.4% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Syktyvdinsky District is one of the twelve in the Komi Republic. The district is divided into ten selo administrative territories and three settlement administrative territories, which comprise forty-nine rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Syktyvdinsky Municipal District. Its thirteen administrative territories are incorporated as thirteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Vylgort serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
“Syktyvdinsky District” enters the record as municipal district in Russia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Syktyvdinsky, 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 Q971478. VIAF identifies the subject as 133684652. The Library of Congress control number is n80014546. Authority coordinates are 61.623, 50.757. 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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