 The area measures 95 km (north-south), 65 km (west-east); total area is 4,100 km2 (about 0.003% of Tyumen Oblast).The district is bordered on the north by Aromashevsky District, on the east by Ishimsky District, on the south by Armizonsky District and Berdyuzhsky District, and on the west by Omutinsky District.The first recorded settlement by Russians was in 1698 by ""the Tobolsk son Boyar Ivan Bobrowski and his comrades" who built a fortification at the confluence of the Vagay River and the Gremyachey River.