Yelnikovsky District (Russian: Е́льниковский райо́н; Moksha: Ельниконь аймак, Jeĺnikoń ajmak; Erzya: Кузбуе, Kuzbuje) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the twenty-two in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is 1,056 square kilometers (408 sq mi).[4] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Yelniki.[3] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 11,995, with the population of Yelniki accounting for 49.2% of that number.[5]
^ abConstitution of the Republic of Mordovia, Article 63
^Справочник по административно-территориальному делению Пензенского края 1663-1991 гг. (in Russian), Penza: State Archive of the Penza Region, 2003, p. 224, WikidataQ29001921
^Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Национальный состав населения по регионам России [All Union Population Census of 1979. Ethnic composition of the population by regions of Russia] (XLS). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года [All-Union Population Census of 1979] (in Russian). 1979 – via Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics.