Sholokhovsky District
Sholokhovsky District () is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa) of Vyoshenskaya. Population: 27,294 (2010 Census);  The population of Vyoshenskaya accounts for 33.9% of the district's total population. History
The district was called Vyoshensky () until 1984, when it was renamed in honor of author Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize-winner, who was from Vyoshenskaya and died earlier that year. References

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Districts of Rostov Oblast