Solntsevo District (Russian: райо́н Со́лнцево) is a district of Western Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia.
The area of the district is 11.2879 square kilometres (4.3583 sq mi).
[4] It originated in 1938 as a dacha settlement and was named after the Russian word for Sun ("солнце, solntse).
Former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov and 2008 presidential election candidate Andrey Bogdanov are natives of Solntsevo.
The organized crime group Solntsevskaya Bratva based its name upon Solntsevo District.