Tazovsky District (Russian: Та́зовский райо́н; Nenets: Тасу’ Яваʼʼ, Tasuꜧ Javaꜧ) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia.

Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Tazovsky.

[1] The district is located in the north, northeast, and east of the autonomous okrug and borders Purovsky, Nadymsky, and Krasnoselkupsky District; these exist to the south, south-west, and south-east, respectively - alongside Yamalsky District west over Gulf of Ob, and Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District and Turukhansky District east within Krasnoyarsk Krai.

The area of the district is 174,343.92 square kilometers (67,314.56 sq mi),[citation needed] which consists of the Gyda Peninsula, Taz Estuary as well as the region directly east of it.

[citation needed] The district is home to the Novatek Arctic LNG 2 project.