The east of the district is more rural, with potato, root crops, and grain fields and cattle pastures alternating with forests and dacha areas.

[1] Local historical sites include the Church of Our Lady of Kazan in the village of Veliky Vrag, just northeast of Kstovo.

The rest of the district is mostly agricultural, although the metalworking plant in Bezvodnoye and a brick factory in Afonino are well known in the region.

A few years later, after the Chernobyl disaster, the construction stopped, and the large, almost completed building remains, as of 2006, mostly unused.

One of Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan area's largest shopping malls, anchored by an IKEA store and an Auchan hypermarket, is located near the same Fedyakovo, across the road from the uncompleted nuclear plant building.