Yelanets Raion (Ukrainian: Єланецький район) was located in Mykolaiv Oblast of Ukraine.

Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Yelanets.

The okruhas were directly subordinated to Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1935, Yelanets Raion was transferred to Odessa Oblast.

In 1968, Yelanets was granted urban-type settlement status.