 The northern part of the district belongs to the drainage basins of the Zhukopa and the Tudovka, right tributaries of the Volga.Thus, the district is crossed by the divide between the basins of the Atlantic and of the Caspian Sea.The northern part of the district belongs to the Central Forest Nature Reserve, a protected area created to preserve conifer forest with the corresponding plants and animals, including the Eurasian brown bear, in the upper course of the Western Dvina.