Laksky District (Russian: Ла́кский райо́н; Lak: Лакрал кӏану) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southern central part of the republic. The area of the district is 750 square kilometers (290 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kumukh.[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 12,161, with the population of Kumukh accounting for 15.9% of that number.[3]
^Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Национальный состав населения по регионам России [All Union Population Census of 1979. Ethnic composition of the population by regions of Russia] (XLS). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года [All-Union Population Census of 1979] (in Russian). 1979 – via Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics.