Baltasi (Russian: Балтаси́; Tatar: Балтач) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Baltasinsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Shoshma River (right tributary of the Vyatka), 106 kilometers (66 mi) from the republic's capital of Kazan.

[2] Baltasi served as the district administrative center in 1932–1963, and again since 1965.

[citation needed] Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Baltasi serves as the administrative center of Baltasinsky District, of which it is a part.

[1] As a municipal division, Baltasi, together with three rural localities, is incorporated within Baltasinsky Municipal District as Baltasi Urban Settlement.

[2] The nearest railway station is Shemordan on the Kazan–Agryz line, 25 kilometers (16 mi) northwest of Baltasi.