Sovetsko-Gavansky District (Russian: Сове́тско-Га́ванский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the seventeen in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
The area of the district is 15,534 square kilometers (5,998 sq mi).
[12] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sovetsko-Gavansky District is one of the seventeen in the krai.
[1] The town of Sovetskaya Gavan serves as its administrative center,[2] despite being incorporated separately as a town of krai significance[1]—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.
[13] As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sovetsko-Gavansky Municipal District, with the town of krai significance of Sovetskaya Gavan being incorporated within it as Sovetskaya Gavan Urban Settlement.