Kurakhsky District (Russian: Курахский райо́н; Lezgian: Кьурагь район) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kurakh.

[2] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kurakhsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan.

[1] The district is divided into nine selsoviets which comprise twenty-eight rural localities.

[4] Its nine selsoviets are incorporated as fourteen rural settlements within the municipal district.