Kuzhenersky District (Russian: Кужене́рский райо́н; Mari: Кужэҥер кундем, Kužeŋer kundem) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the fourteen in the Mari El Republic, Russia.

The area of the district is 852 square kilometers (329 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Kuzhener.

[4] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kuzhenersky District is one of the fourteen in the republic.

[1] It is divided into one urban-type settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Kuzhener) and eight rural okrugs, all of which comprise eighty-nine rural localities.