Myasnikovsky District

Myasnikovsky District (Мяснико́вский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 880 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Chaltyr. Population: 39,631 (2010 Census); The population of Chaltyr accounts for 38.7% of the district's total population. The historical ethnic Armenian community constitutes majority of the population of the district, about 60 percent.