Varnavinsky District (Russian: Варна́винский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

[4] It is located in the north of the oblast.

The area of the district is 2,523.4 square kilometers (974.3 sq mi).

[1] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Varnavino.

[7] The population of Varnavino accounts for 26.0% of the district's total population.