Butyrsky District (Russian: Бутырский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion) of North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia.

The area of the district is 5.04 square kilometers (1.95 sq mi).

History first records the village of Butyrka in the 14th century, on the road from Moscow north to Dmitriv (that road is now Butyrskaya Street running up the western border of the district.

)[4] The village eventually came into the possession of boyar Nikita Romanovich Zakharin, the grandfather of Tsar Michael I.

[4] After WWII, the area developed with blocks of apartment buildings.