Balakhtinsky District (Russian: Балахти́нский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[7] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

The area of the district is 10,250 square kilometers (3,960 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Balakhta.

[5] The district is situated in the valley between the Chulym and Yenisei Rivers.

[2] As of the 2002 Census, the ethnic composition of the population was as follows:[citation needed] The rate of the natural decline of the district population was 4.3 persons per 1,000 in 2009, which is in sharp contrast to the krai's average increase of 0.2 persons per 1,000.