Kurilsky District

Kurilsky District (Russian: Кури́льский райо́н, romanized: Kuríl'skiy rayón) is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast.

[1] Municipally, it is incorporated as Kurilsky Urban Okrug.

[4] It is located on the central Kuril Islands southeast of the Island of Sakhalin.

The area of the district is 5,145.9 square kilometers (1,986.8 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the town of Kurilsk.