Cheboksarsky District (; , Şupaşkar rayonĕ) is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic and borders with the Mari El Republic in the north, Mariinsko-Posadsky District in the east, Tsivilsky and Krasnoarmeysky Districts in the south, and with Morgaushsky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Kugesi. Population:
Geography The Volga River parts the district into a smaller area in the north and a larger southern area which contains the majority of the population.
History The district was established on September 5, 1927.
Notable residents
Hyacinth (born Nikita Bichurin; 1777–1853), one of the founding fathers of Russian Sinology Mikhail Ignatyev (1962–2020), politician
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