Pavlovsky District (Russian: Па́вловский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

[4] It is located in the west of the oblast.

The area of the district is 1,098.5 square kilometers (424.1 sq mi).

[1] Its administrative center is the town of Pavlovo.

[7] The population of Pavlovo accounts for 60.1% of the district's total population.