The area of the district is 22,544 square kilometers (8,704 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Loukhi.

[4] On November 17, 1987, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR decreed to transfer the settlement of the railway station of Poyakonda from Tedinsky Selsoviet of Loukhsky District of the Karelian ASSR to Murmansk Oblast.

[13] By the Decision of the Murmansk Oblast Executive Committee of January 20, 1988, the settlement was merged with the inhabited locality of Poyakonda on the territory in jurisdiction of the town of Kandalaksha.

[13] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Loukhsky District is one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia[1] and has administrative jurisdiction over three urban-type settlements (Chupa, Loukhi, and Pyaozersky) and twenty-seven rural localities.