 It is in the basin of the Iset River, which meanders from west to east through the middle of the district.The Iset meets the south-north flowing Tobol River about 20km east of the district.The administrative center is the town of Isetskoye, which is in the middle of the district at the intersection of a north-south highway ("Tyumen-Kurgan") and a west-east highway ("Yekaterinburg-Shadrinsk-Isetskoye-Yalutorovsk").