Shatsky District

Shatsky District (Ша́цкий райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2400 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Shatsk. Population: 24,414 (2010 Census); The population of Shatsk accounts for 26.9% of the district's total population.

Notable residents

 * Gennadi Bogachyov (born 1945 in Shatsk), stage and film actor
 * Ivan Zakharkin (1889–1944), Soviet Army commander during World War II