Volotovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Shimsky District in the north, Starorussky District in the east, Poddorsky District in the south, Dedovichsky District of Pskov Oblast in the southwest, Dnovsky District of Pskov Oblast in the west, and with Soletsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is , which makes it the smallest district in the oblast.= Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Volot. District's population: 6,106 (2002 Census); The population of Volot accounts for 40.7% of the district's total population.