Kotelnikovsky District

Kotelnikovsky District (Коте́льниковский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kotelnikovsky Municipal District. It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is 3471 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Kotelnikovo. Population: 36,856 (2002 Census);  The population of Kotelnikovo accounts for 54.4% of the district's total population.

Notable people

 * Vasily Generalov (1867-1887) a Russian revolutionary
 * Germogen (Maximov) (1861-1945) head of the Croatian Orthodox Church, 1942–1945.
 * Yemelyan Pugachev (ca.1742–1775) an ataman of the Yaik Cossacks and disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Army who led Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–75.
 * Alina Stremous (born 1995) a Russian-born Moldovan biathlete who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics