Tunkinsky District (Russian: Тунки́нский райо́н; Buryat: Түнхэнэй аймаг, Tünkhenei aimag) is an administrative[1] and municipal[3] district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kyren.

[2] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tunkinsky District is one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia.

[1] The district is divided into five selsoviets and seven somons, which comprise thirty-five rural localities.

[3] Its five selsoviets and seven somons are incorporated as fourteen rural settlements within the municipal district.