It borders the Samara and Ulyanovsk Oblasts as well as the Spassky, Alekseevsky and Nurlatsky districts of Tatarstan.

Silver is a symbol of purity, perfection, peace and understanding while red stands for labor, strength, courage and beauty; the blue in the center stands for honor, nobility, spirituality; green signifies nature, health and growth in life; purple invokes fame, honor and greatness; while black is a symbol of wisdom, modesty, eternity of being.

[10] In the Stone Age, the territory of the district was one of the centers of human settlement in the Middle Volga region.

The Staronokhrat, Staromatak and Tyugulbaevskoe hillforts, around 126 kurgans and 130 villages are among the significant archaeological sites in the district known to scholars.

Among these main regional enterprises are "Krasny Vostok Agro", the industrial pig-breeding complex "Salman", "Khuzangaevskoye", "Yash Kuch" and 43 private peasant farms.

[19][20] From January to September 2020, regional companies shipped goods worth 391 million rubles.

According to figures released by the Federal State Statistics Service in 2019, the district attracted almost 1.3 billion rubles in investment (in addition to budgetary funds and tax income from small businesses), by comparison the same figure in 2018 constituted 1.1 billion rubles.

There is an inactive airport serving local airlines and regional aviation located in Bazarny Mataki.

[19] Natural monuments of regional importance in the district include the floodplain of the Maly Cheremshan River and the Tatarsko-Akhmetyevskoe peat bog.

These monuments are home to protected plant species listed in the Red Book of Tatarstan such as the betula humilis, pyrola chlorantha, epipactis palustris, cirsium palustre, marsh dremlik, marsh thistle and others.

A local newspaper "Alkeevskie Vesti" ("Әlki hәbәrlәre") has been published in Tatar and Russian languages since 1932.