Tabasaransky District (Russian: Табасаранский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is 801 square kilometers (309 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Khuchni. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 52,886, with the population of Khuchni accounting for 6.1% of that number.
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Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tabasaransky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into eighteen selsoviets which comprise seventy-four rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Tabasaransky Municipal District. Its eighteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-two rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Khuchni serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
Archaeology
The Paleolithic site of Tinit-1 is located 0.5 km northeast of the village of Tinit. Its lower archaeological horizons are more than 43,700 years old.
The Paleolithic site of Rubas-1 is located along the Rubas River, 3 km upstream from the village of Chulat. An ash horizon at the site has been dated to 1.5 ± 0.04 million years ago.