[4] Being a part of the Ilmen Depression, the district's landscape is essentially flat.

The biggest rivers in the district, all of them being right tributaries of the Shelon, are the Dubyanka, the Polonka, and the Lyuta.

The area was a part of Porkhovsky Uyezd, and Dno was the seat of Dnovskaya Volost.

On August 1, 1927, the uyezds were abolished, and Dnovsky District was established, with the administrative center in the town of Dno.

The governorates were abolished as well, and the district became a part of Pskov Okrug of Leningrad Oblast.

[10] The main agricultural specialization in the district is cattle breeding with meat and milk production.

One connects Bologoye and Pskov via Staraya Russa and runs from east to west.