Yuzhno-Kurilsky District (Russian: Ю́жно-Кури́льский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast.

[1] Municipally, it is incorporated as Yuzhno-Kurilsky Urban Okrug.

The area of the district is 1,856.1 square kilometers (716.6 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Yuzhno-Kurilsk,[1] located on Kunashir Island.

[3] The district in its entirety, along with the nearby island of Iturup in the Kurilsky District, are claimed by Japan as part of the Nemuro Subprefecture of Hokkaidō.