Podporozhsky District is an administrative and municipal district (
raion), one of the
seventeen in
Leningrad Oblast,
Russia. It is located in the northeast of the
oblast and borders with
Prionezhsky District of the
Republic of Karelia in the north,
Vytegorsky District of
Vologda Oblast in the east,
Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast in the southeast,
Tikhvinsky District in the south,
Lodeynopolsky District in the southwest, and
Olonetsky and
Pryazhinsky Districts of the Republic of Karelia in the northwest. In the northeast, the district is bounded by
Lake Onega. The area of the district is , which makes it the largest district in Vologda Oblast. Its
administrative center is the
town of
Podporozhye. Population (excluding the administrative center): 14,845 (
2002 Census);