It bordered the Stavropol Governorate to the north, the Labinsky and Maykopsky otdels to the west, the Sochi and Sukhumi okrugs to the south, and the Terek Oblast to the east.

The area of the Batalpashinsky otdel included most of the contemporary Karachay-Cherkessia region of Russia.

The plurality of the population indicated Russian to be their mother tongue, with significant Ukrainian and Karachay speaking minorities.

[3] According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Batalpashinsky otdel had a population of 298,208 on 14 January [O.S.

1 January] 1916, including 152,171 men and 146,037 women, 208,488 of whom were the permanent population, and 89,720 were temporary residents:[6]