[4] Abatsky District is located in the southeast of Tyumen Oblast, supporting mostly agricultural land on forest-steppe terrain of the West Siberian Plain.

The Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the middle of the district from west to east, passing through the administrative center of Abatskoye.

The first Russian presence was as part of a string of security posts along the Ishim River in the 1600s, as a defense against Siberian Tatars.

Incoming settlers from central Russia were attracted to the farmland, and with involuntary conscripts added the population grew.

On January 25,1935, the District was formed again as part of Omsk Oblast, and on August 14, 1944 by decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, Abatsky District was included in Tyumen Oblast