Shalinsky District is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 4,852 square kilometers (1,873 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality of Shalya. Population: 23,834 ; 26,019 (2002 Census); 31,384 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Shalya accounts for 27.0% of the district's total population.