Tamalinsky District

Tamalinsky District (Тамали́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is 1236 km2. Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Tamala. Population: 16,503 (2010 Census); The population of Tamala accounts for 45.3% of the district's total population.



Notable residents

 * Nikolai Krylov (1903–1972), Marshal of the Soviet Union
 * Aleksei Makushkin (born 1997 in Tamala), football player