Alikovsky District

Alikovsky District (; , Elĕk rajonĕ) is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia. It is located in the northwestern central part of the republic and borders with Morgaushsky and Yadrinsky Districts in the north, Krasnoarmeysky District in the east, Vurnarsky and Shumerlinsky Districts in the south, and with Krasnochetaysky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Alikovo. Population:  The population of Alikovo accounts for 14.5% of the district's total population.

History
The district was formed on October 1, 1927.

Economy
There is a construction plant in Alikovo.

Transportation
The Cheboksary–Yadrin and the Cheboksary–Krasnye Chetay autoroute cross the territory of the district.

Demographics
As of the 2002 Census, 98% of the population was Chuvash.

Education
There is a middle school in Alikovo.

Culture
There is a museum, a people's theater, a folk band, a veteran's orchestra, a school's brass band, and a chorus. Regional Chuvash music festival "Vir'yal shevlisem" (lit. Viryal's pancakes) takes place in May of each year.

Notable people
 Alexander Artemiev, writer and poet
 Anatoly Serep, writer and poet
 Arcady Aris, writer
 Arkady Malov, poet and translator
 Boris Markov, actor, director
 Gerasim Pileš, writer and playwright
 Ille Toktash, writer and poet
 Nikita Larionov, writer and poet
 Nikolai Yut, writer, folklorist, and literature critic
 Stanislav Voronov, artist

Further reading
 L. A. Yefimov, "Alikovsky District" ("Элĕк Енĕ"), Alikovo, 1994.
 "Аликовская энциклопедия" (Alikovsky District's Encyclopedia), authors: Yefimov L.A., Yefimov E.L., Ananyev A.A., Terentyev G.K., Cheboksary, 2009, .

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