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Zaoka district is an administrative-territorial unit (district) and a municipal formation (municipal district) in the Tula region of Russia.

The administrative center is an urban-type settlement (working settlement) Zaoksky.

Geography
Located in the north-west of the Tula region.

It borders in the south with Alexinsky, in the east and north-east - with Yasnogorsky districts of the Tula region, in the north - with the Serpukhov urban district of the Moscow region, in the west - with the Tarussky district of the Kaluga region.

Water resources determine the rivers - Oka, Vashana, Vypreika, Sknig, Besputa, Soen, Gorodenka, Pishna, Solominka, Skrychka, Yamnitsa, Pine.

The soils are gray forest and sod-podzolic. Forests occupy 6.84% of the area.

History

XIV-XVIII centuries
The territory on which the working settlement arose belonged to the Alexinsky district, which became part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the XIV century. Despite the fact that this area belongs to the forest zone, its settlement was hampered by Tatar raids. In the raid of 1472, the district center Alexin was destroyed. The campaign of Khan Akhmat in 1480, which ended in standing on the Oka, and then on the Ugra and complete defeat hardly allowed to inhabit the lands beyond the Oka. The raid of 1492 shows the extremely weak population of the area south of Oka. Therefore, the settlement of the region begins only from the very end of the XV - early XVI centuries. Information about the emergence of the parish, which in the XIX century included D. Ivanovka and St. Ivanovo (then Tarusskaya) Moscow-Kursk railway refers to the end of the XVII century.

The church historian P. I. Malitsky admits inaccuracy, both in determining the time of creation of the parish of the village of Unka, in which D. Ivanovka entered, and in the origin of this name: "The origin of the parish," he writes, "is very ancient, at first becomes known at the end of the XVII century, when the monastery standing on the place where the temple is now located was abolished in the village of Unek. And since the monastery, like most of the ancient Russian monasteries, was located in a desert area and stood apart from the population, the current name Unek, or more correctly Unik, owes, without a doubt, the position of this village in the desert, as a place where monastic persons-deserts, or hermits lived. Hence the name of the village of Unica from the Latin unicus - lonely, in the sense of a hermit or monk. On the site of the abolished monastery mentioned above, in 1701, a wooden two-dimensional Temple with altars was built by the sophomore Nikifor Bogdanovich Plescheev in the name of the Renewal of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and in the name of St. Great Martyr Nikita.

In fact, the Church of the Renewal of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built in 1674-1675, as evidenced by records in church books of that period. V. Dahl gives an explanation of the name Unki, producing it from the words ulegi, ulegi, ulegi, uledi, unegi - this is "the simplest, coarse leather shoes, kaligi, cats, boots, etc." The letter "g" in colloquial speech easily turns into "k". The church was built not on the site of the monastery, but on the moss