Sholokhovsky District


Sholokhovsky District is an administrative and municipal district, 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 of Vyoshenskaya. Population: 27,294 ; 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.