Giaginsky District is an administrative and a municipal district (raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

), one of the seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia

Russia

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. It is located in the central northern portion of the republic and borders with Shovgenovsky District

Shovgenovsky District

Shovgenovsky District is an administrative and a municipal district, one of the seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. It is located in the central northern portion of the republic and borders with Ust-Labinsky District of Krasnodar Krai in the north, Kurganinsky District of Krasnodar Krai in...

 in the north, Koshekhablsky District

Koshekhablsky District

Koshekhablsky District is an administrative and a municipal district , one of the seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. It is located in the eastern portion of the republic and borders with Kurganinsky District of Krasnodar Krai in the north and northeast, Labinsky District of Krasnodar Krai in...

 in the east and northeast, Mostovsky District

Mostovsky District

Mostovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Mostovskoy. District's population: Population of the administrative center accounts for 35.2% of the district's population....

 of Krasnodar Krai

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 in the southeast, Maykopsky District

Maykopsky District

Maykopsky District is an administrative and a municipal district, one of the seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. It comprises the southern portion of the republic and borders with Giaginsky District in the north, Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai in the east, territory of the city of Sochi...

 in the south, and Belorechensky District

Belorechensky District

Belorechensky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Belorechensk . District's population:...

 of Krasnodar Krai in the west. The area of the district is 795 square kilometres (307 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

) of Giaginskaya

Giaginskaya

Giaginskaya is a stanitsa in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located 35 km from Maykop. It is the administrative center of Giaginsky District. Population: 15,160 ; 14,522...

. District's population: Population of Giaginskaya accounts for 45.3% of the district's population.

History

Giaginsky District was established within Azov-Black Sea Krai

Azov-Black Sea Krai

Azov-Black Sea Krai was an early krai of Russian SFSR. By the 1937 All-Union Census, it had population of 5,601,759....

 on December 31, 1934 as a result of the downsizing of that krai

Krai

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's districts. On April 10, 1936, Khansky Selsoviet of Maykopsky District

Maykopsky District

Maykopsky District is an administrative and a municipal district, one of the seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. It comprises the southern portion of the republic and borders with Giaginsky District in the north, Mostovsky District of Krasnodar Krai in the east, territory of the city of Sochi...

 of the krai was merged into Giaginsky District and the latter, along with the city of Maykop

Maykop

Maykop is the capital city of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the right bank of the Belaya River . Population: -History:...

, was transferred to Adyghe Autonomous Oblast. On February 1, 1963, Maykopsky District of Adyghe Autonomous Oblast was merged into Giaginsky District to create Giaginsky Rural District . However, as the new system of rural districts did not prove to be effective, Giaginsky District was re-instated in its pre-1963 borders on January 12, 1965.

Administrative divisions

Giaginsky District has administrative jurisdiction over all of its thirty rural localities.

Municipal divisions

Municipally, the district is divided into five rural settlements:

Municipal composition

Rural settlements	Rural localities in jurisdiction*
Ayryumovskoye	settlement of Novy khutor Khutor Khutor or khutir is usually taken to refer to a single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe.In Cossack-settled lands that encompassed today's Ukraine, Kuban, and the lower Don river basin the word khutor was used to describe new settlements which had detached themselves from stanitsas... of Krasny Khleborob selo of Nizhny Ayryum selo of Obraztsovoye khutor of Progress khutor of Sadovy
Dondukovskoye	stanitsa of Dondukovskaya khutor of Nechayevsky khutor of Smolchev-Malinovsky khutor of Volno-Vesyoly
Giaginskoye	stanitsa of Giaginskaya Giaginskaya Giaginskaya is a stanitsa in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located 35 km from Maykop. It is the administrative center of Giaginsky District. Population: 15,160 ; 14,522... khutor of Cheryomushkin settlement of Goncharka khutor of Pervomaysky
Kelermesskoye	stanitsa of Kelermesskaya settlement of Lesnoy settlement of Vladimirovskoye
Sergiyevskoye	selo of Sergiyevskoye khutor of Dneprovsky khutor of Farsovsky selo of Georgiyevskoye khutor of Kartsev khutor of Kolkhozny khutor of Kozopolyansky khutor of Krasny Pakhar khutor of Kursky khutor of Mikhelsonovsky khutor of Shishkinsky khutor of Tambovsky khutor of Yekaterinovsky

*Administrative centers are shown in bold