[3] The highest point of the district is Mount Uchashchina, at 1,412 meters (4,633 ft).

Catherine the Great ordered to give additional money to the network in 1790.

As a result, on the spot of modern Alexandrovsky Zavod appeared a silver works in 1792, which later was named after Alexander I.

After the silver resources depletion in the late 1880s, population comprised Cossacks and peasants who took active part in Russian revolutions.

World War II caused an enormous decrease in manpower and the district's industry.