Nizhnekolymsky District is a district (ulus

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"...

) of the Sakha Republic, Russia

Russia

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. It is municipally incorporated as the Municipal District of "Nizhnekolymsky Ulus" . The administrative center of the district is the settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 of Chersky

Chersky (settlement)

Chersky is an urban locality and the administrative center of Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Kolyma River east of Yakutsk. Population:...

. District population:

Municipally, Nizhnekolymsky Ulus is divided into one urban settlement (with the administrative center in Chersky), which has one rural locality in its jurisdiction, and three rural settlements (formed on the basis of three administrative nasleg

Selsoviet

Selsoviet is a shortened name for a rural council. The full names for the term are, in , , . Selsoviets were the lowest level of administrative division in rural areas in the Soviet Union...

s), comprising eleven rural localities.