Ust-Koksinsky District (; , Kök-Suu Oozı aymak) is an administrativeLaw #101-RZ and municipalLaw #10-RZ district (raion), one of the ten in the Altai Republic, Russia. It is located in the west and southwest of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Ust-Koksa. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 17,020, with the population of Ust-Koksa accounting for 25.7% of that number.
History The district was established on October 19, 1923 as Uymonsky District ()Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai, p. 345 within Oirot Autonomous Oblast.Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai, p. 345 It was given its present name on April 10, 1933.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Ust-Koksinsky District is one of the ten in the Altai Republic. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Ust-Koksinsky Municipal District. Both administrative and municipal districts are divided into the same nine rural settlements, comprising forty-two rural localities. The selo of Ust-Koksa serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal districts.
Nature reserves The district is home to two nature reserves: Katunsky State Natural Biosphere ReserveWild-Russia.org. Katunsky Zapovednik and Belukha Nature Park.
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Исполнительный комитет Алтайского краевого Совета народных депутатов. Архивный отдел. Государственный архив Алтайского края. "Справочник административно-территориальных изменений на Алтае, 1917–1980" (Reference Book of the Administrative-Territorial Changes in Altai, 1917–1980). Барнаул, Алтайское книжное издательство, 1987.