[1] As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Gornouralsky Urban Okrug (Горноура́льский городско́й о́круг).

[7][5] The area of the district is 3,513 square kilometers (1,356 sq mi).

[10] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Prigorodny District is one of the thirty in the oblast.

[1] The city of Nizhny Tagil serves as its administrative center,[2] despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

[8] As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Gornouralsky Urban Okrug.