Uvelsky District (Russian: Уве́льский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

[1] It is located in the eastern central part of the oblast.

The area of the district is 2,330 square kilometers (900 sq mi).

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

[5] The population of the administrative center accounts for 33.0% of the district's total population.