| En Name: | German National District |
| Ru Name: | Немецкий национальный район |
| Other Name: | Deutscher Nationalkreis |
| Other Lang: | German |
| Image View: | Гальбштадт Первомайская улица.jpg |
| Coordinates: | 53.225°N 78.9833°W |
| Federal Subject: | Altai Krai |
| Adm Data As Of: | October 2012 |
| Adm Ctr Type: | selo |
| Adm Ctr Name: | Galbshtadt |
| Selsoviet Type1: | selsoviet |
| No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 12 |
| No Of Rural Localities: | 16 |
| Mun Data As Of: | July 2012 |
| Mun Formation1: | Nemetsky National Municipal District |
| Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 0 |
| Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 12 |
| Area Km2: | 1450 |
| Pop 2010Census: | 17668 |
| Urban Pop 2010Census: | 0% |
| Rural Pop 2010Census: | 100% |
| Established Date: | July 4, 1927 (first), July 1, 1991 (second) |
| Website: | www.altairegion22.ru |
| Date: | January 2013 |
German National District (Russian: Неме́цкий национа́льный райо́н|translit=Nemetskiy natsional'nyy rayon; German: Deutscher Nationalrajon) is an administrative[1] and municipal[2] district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the krai. The area of the district is 1450km2.[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Galbshtadt. Population: The population of Galbshtadt accounts for 9.9% of the district's total population.
The official name of that area is "Deutscher Nationalkreis im Altai-Gebiet" (German national rayon in the Altai District). The district was established on July 4, 1927 and abolished on November 5, 1938 by Stalin. On July 4, 1991 it was resurrected by special orders of President Boris Yeltsin. Bonn and Moscow also agreed to the foundation of another German rayon: Asowo in the district of Omsk. Halbstadt, however, had already existed as a German village between 1927 and 1938, before Stalin put an end to it.[4]
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Germany actively aided the development of the economy and social services in the district. In the period between 1991 and 2006, the German government subsidized construction of 168 apartments (1-, 2-, 6- and 9-apartment houses) with a total area of 17400sqm.
The "Pavlodar - Tomsk" highway (including the "Slavgorod - Kamen-na-Obi" section) runs through the district.