Dolzhansky District

Dolzhansky District (Должа́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Oryol Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 908.4 km2. Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Dolgoye. Population: 11,984 (2010 Census); The population of Dolgoye accounts for 37.1% of the district's total population.

Attractions

 * Sports and recreation complex (FOC)
 * Convent of St. Mary Magdalene

Notable residents

 * Ivan Ilich Dolgikh (1904–1961), Soviet police officer and politician, head of the Gulag labour camps 1951–1954
 * Anatoly Yakunin (born 1964), Moscow Police Commissioner 2012–2016, born in the village of Krivtsovo-Plota