Zelenchuksky District (Russian: Зеленчу́кский райо́н; Karachay-Balkar: Зеленчук район, Zelençuk rayon) is an administrative[1] and municipal[3] district (raion), one of the ten in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia.

It is located in the western central part of the republic.

The area of the district is 2,931 square kilometers (1,132 sq mi).

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

[2] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Zelenchuksky District is one of the ten in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its seventeen rural localities.