The Shapsug national district or Shapsug national raion was a district that was established in 1924 as a national district for the Circassian Shapsugs tribe of the Black Sea Circassians within the Kra

The Shapsug are one of the twelve major Circassian tribes. Historically, the Shapsug tribe comprised one of the largest groups of the Black Sea Adyghe. They inhabited the region between the Dzhubga Ri