Skopinsky District


Skopinsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the town of Skopin. Population: 27,080 ;
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Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Skopinsky District is one of the twenty-five in the oblast. The town of Skopin serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Skopinsky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Skopin is incorporated separately from the district as Skopin Urban Okrug.
On 7 October 2020, a grass fire reached ammunition in open storage at Military Unit Number 55443 near Zheltukhino in Skopinsky District, Ryazan Oblast, igniting munitions. Whether GRAU or the Western Military District was responsible for the depot was not clear. Interfaks-AVN wrote that there were 113 warehouses and bunkers with 75,000 tons of missiles, rockets, and artillery shells at the site. A women died from injuries and there were at least another 15 victims in stable condition; the fire and explosions "damaged 430 structures, public facilities, apartment buildings, and private homes."