Limansky District (Russian: Лима́нский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the eleven in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.

The area of the district is 5,234 square kilometers (2,021 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Liman.

[3] In 2005 the Limansky District saw sectarian conflict between the native Kalmyks and Chechen migrant workers over an incident involving a monument on the grave of Kalmyk Eduard Kokmadzhiev.

After a Kalmyk was killed during the clashes, the Kalmyks organized a pogrom of the Chechen population with houses being set on fire with support from the local Russian administration.