Kavkazsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.Reference Information #34.01-707/13-03 As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kavkazsky Municipal District.Law #713-KZ It is located in the east of the krai. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Kavkazskaya. Population: The population of Kavkazskaya accounts for 25.1% of the district's total population.
History The district was established on June 2, 1924 as Kropotkinsky District (), with the administrative center in the stanitsa of Kavkazskaya.Bondar and Vertysheva, pp. 173–174 It was given its current name on January 22, 1944. In 1956, the administrative center of the district was transferred to the town of Kropotkin. On February 1, 1963, the district was transformed into a rural district with the administrative center in the town of Gulkevichi. On January 12, 1965, this transformation was reverted. On October 20, 1980, the stanitsa of Kavkazskaya became the administrative center again.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, the town of Kropotkin is not a part of the district and is incorporated separately. As a municipal division, however, Kropotkin is incorporated within Kavkazsky Municipal District as Kropotkinskoye Urban Settlement and serves as the municipal district's administrative center.
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