Rylsky District

Rylsky District (Ры́льский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is 1505.02 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Rylsk. Population: 40,714 (2002 Census);  The population of Rylsk accounts for 50.5% of the district's total population.

Attractions
In the environs of Rylsk, two manors are of interest to the student of Russian history. The village of Ivanovskoye, 20 km east of Rylsk, has a summer residence of Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa, while Maryino, slightly to the west, used to be a seat of the princely house of Boryatinsky, who in 1815-1816 built a palace and extensive English park there.