It shares borders with the Chistopolsky, Novosheshminsky, Cheremshansky, Nurlatsky and Alkeyevsky districts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement Aksubayevo (in pre-revolutionary sources, it is known as Troitsky by the name of the local church).

[4][6] The climate of the region is continental and is characterized by warm, humid summers (the average air temperature in July is 18.6 °C) and moderately cold winters with a stable snow cover.

A significant part of the territory is located in the space between the Malaya Sulcha and Maliy Cheremshan Rivers.

Three silver doves symbolize the peaceful and harmonious coexistence of three peoples on the territory of the district (Chuvash, Tatars and Russians).

The golden sun represents the Aksubayevsky district as a land, whose inhabitants preserve the memory of their ancestors and take care of their descendants.

The tricolor field symbolizes the sectors of the district's economy: oil, grain growing, animal husbandry.

Iron agricultural tools from the middle of the 1st millennium AD belonging to the Imenkov tribes have also been found in the district.

[12] Archaeological excavations of graves dating from the 10th century testify to a predominantly Muslim method of burial.

After the annexation of the Kazan Khanate to the Russian state after the campaigns of Ivan the Terrible, the widespread Christianization of the non-Russian peoples of the Trans-Kama region and its renaming began.

Surviving documents f rom 1771-1773 indicate that the village of Aksubayevo was part of the Staroibraykin volost of the Chistopol district of the Kazan province.

[14] An active policy of Russification of national peoples and the imposition of Russian languages through schools took place in the republic in the 1950s.

At the same time, the percentage of population decline in the Aksubayevsky district was significantly higher than the norm in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The head of the district has been the Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kamil Kamalovich Gilmanov since May 2008.

[20] The economic complex of the Aksubaevsky district was formed under the influence of a number of factors, including the peculiarities of its geographical location and the historical development of the territory.

The level of investment in fixed assets per capita in the Aksubayevsky district is one of the lowest in the Zakamsk economic zone of Tatarstan.

Small oil companies are engaged in their development, including "Nurlatneft" (subsidiary of Tatneft), "Ritek", "Tatekh", "Tatnefteprom" (operating since 1999, developing 16 fields, in 2018 received a number of republican economic awards - "Pride and Hope of the National Economy", "Company of the Year"[22]), and "TNGK-Development".

These firms produce building materials including expanded clay concrete, arbalite blocks and paving stones.

[28][29] Winter rye, spring wheat, oats, peas, barley, sugar beets, sunflowers, rapeseed, corn, potatoes, lupines and soybeans are cultivated in the district.

[31] Meat and dairy cattle ranching and pig breeding are among the main livestock industries in the Aksubayevsky district.

for oyster mushroom farming, with an area of about 1.5 thousand square meters and a capacity to produce up to 6 tons in the village of Staroye Mokshino.

[39] Currently there are three residents on the site who produce bread and confectionery flour, and make corrugated boards for fences, roofs, and facing houses.

There are forest tracts in the northern and northeastern parts of the district in the basin of the Malaya Sulcha river.

[44][45] Residents of the district have complained about oil pollution of the Tarsa River, which could have occurred as a result a dam break during the spring release of water in May 2018.

The district also helps children from the Fedorovsky boarding school and the Aksubaevsky and "Mechta" orphan houses.

[48] The multinational district is represented by folk theaters and folklore groups and the local newspaper "Selskaya nov" ("Avyl taunary", "Yal purnase") is published in the Russian, Tatar and Chuvash languages.

[49] Famous writers and poets such as Najip Dumavi, Polorusov Shelebi, Hasan Tufan, Efrem Almiyev, Gaziz Kashapov, Mikhail Yegorov (Seniel), the statesman Rais Belyaev and the philosopher and educator Galiasgar Gafurov were born in the Aksubayevsky district.

Some of them have the status of architectural monuments: Almost 200 archaeological monuments in the district have been identified as originating variously from the Bronze Age Imenkovsk culture (Tatar Suncheleevskoe settlement, "Kyz Tau", or "Maiden Mountain"), the Volga Bulgar period, the reign of the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate.

Regional cultural heritage sites include a complex of buildings of a technical vocational school where the boys studied blacksmithing, locksmithing and turning (The Chuvash writer and teacher Efrem Vasilyevich Elliev lived and worked here from 1936 to 1941), the building of the land bank in Aksubaev (opened in 1913, an architectural monument of republican significance), the buildings of the estate of Prince Khovansky (built in the 19th century) in the village of Russkaya Kiremet, the Kazan Church of the Mother of God in the village of Dmitrievka, a monument to the poet Polorusov-Shelebi in the village of Belovka and many others.