Tarasovsky District (Russian: Тара́совский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia.
It is located in the northwest of the oblast.
The area of the district is 2,767.47 square kilometers (1,068.53 sq mi).
[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Tarasovsky.
[7] The population of the administrative center accounts for 30.3% of the district's total population.