Alatyrsky District


Alatyrsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the town of Alatyr. Population: 21,630 ;

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Alatyrsky District is one of the twenty-one in the republic. The town of Alatyr serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Alatyrsky Municipal District. The town of republic significance of Alatyr is incorporated separately from the district as Alatyr Urban Okrug.