Lazovsky District (Russian: Лазо́вский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion) of Primorsky Krai, Russia; one of the twenty-two in the krai. It is located in the southeastern portion of the krai on the eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range and its southern spurs. The area of the district is 4,691.5 square kilometers (1,811.4 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Lazo. District's population: 14,233 (2010 Census preliminary results); 17,521 (2002 Census); 21,311 (1989 Census). Population of Lazo accounts for 20.8% of the district's population.
The district was split from Olginsky District on March 4, 1941 as Sokolovsky District, and was given its present name on August 26, 1949 after the administrative center was moved to Lazo from the settlement of Sudzukhe.
No railways operate on the territory of the district. Communication with the outer world is by auto and sea transport. Most of the population is involved in the coastal and oceanic fishing, mariculture development, and fish and sea products processing. JSC Preobrazhenskaya Trawling Fleet Base and Valentin Fish Factory operate in the district.
Among the district's mineral deposits are tin and gold deposits. The thermal mineral waters are of great importance. Chistovodnoye, the krai's specialized hospital, where illness of locomotor apparatus and cutaneous diseases are treated, is located on the radon springs. Two lakes with medical mud are also used. 24.8% of the district's territory is occupied by the Lazovsky Nature Preserve. The main river of a district is the Kiyevka.
The most populous locality of the district, and the only one classified as urban, is the urban-type settlement of Preobrazheniye.
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