Cheboksarsky District

Cheboksarsky District (Чебокса́рский райо́н; Шупашкар районӗ, Şupaşkar rayonĕ) is an administrative and municipal 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 1178.8 km2. 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