Argayashsky District

Argayashsky District (Аргая́шский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is 2791 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Argayash. Population: 42,808 (2002 Census);  The population of Argayash accounts for 24.3% of the district's total population.

The district was part of the Bashkir Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic until 1934, and together with neighboring Kunashaksky District, formed the exclave Argayash Canton. The two districts were added to Chelyabinsk Oblast as the Argayash National Okrug, which itself only survived until November 1934.

Notable people

 * Kadir Rakhimovich Timergazin, Soviet geologist