The district is located in the north of the republic and occupies a total area of 1,493 square kilometers (576 sq mi).

[4][5] Initially a working village, Zavod Kukmor began as a community that formed around a copper processing enterprise.

A metal smelting plant was subsequently founded there and a Kukmor industrial park has been operating on the territory of the settlement since 2015.

[6][7] The Kukmorsky district is located in the north-western part of the Western Kama region, on the right bank of the Vyatka river.

The administrative center of the district is the city of Kukmor which is located on the Nurminka River and lies 115 km north-east of Kazan.

Golden branches that frame the slopes of the mountain point to the unique natural monument “Kukmorskaya Gora”, and remind of the region's metallurgical production.

In the center of the emblem, felt boots are depicted as a sign of the felting-shoe trade, which has been known in the area since ancient times.

The blue stripe at the top of the coat of arms symbolizes honor, nobility, spirituality, heavenly expanses and streams of water.

It is a rectangular red panel, along the upper edge of which there is a blue stripe that occupies 5/18 of the canvas width.

[10][11] From the 15th to the beginning of the 18th centuries, the territory of the modern Kukmorsky district was part of the Arskaya Daruga of the Kazan Khanate and later was transferred into the eponymous county (uyezd).

The village of Zavod Kukmor was established in the 17th century next to a copper ore deposit and metal mining was organized later by Russian artisans.

Since 1781, the northern part of the Kukmorsky region belonged to the Koshkinsky and Sardykbash volosts of the Malmyzhsky uyezd within the Vyatka province.

At this time in the village of Kukmor there were factories with the latest technological equipment: steam engines and electricity, telephones, a postal and telegraph station.

In 2014, Rakhmatullin became a deputy of the parliament of the republic and in 2015 his place was taken by Sergei Dimitriev who still remains the district head.

According to the results of the 2010 census, Tatars make up 78.2% of the population, 5.5% are Russians, 14% are Udmurts, 1.6% are Mari and 0.6% belonging to other nationalities.

[20] One of the largest factories in the region — Kukmorskii zavod metalloposudy (the Kukmor Metalware Plant) — was opened in 1967 on the basis of an old copper smelter founded by the merchant Semyon Eremeev-Inozemtsev.

[7][25][26] Winter rye, spring wheat, barley, oats, peas, and potatoes are all cultivated in the region.

Large agricultural enterprises in the district include companies “Ural” and “Vostok”, as well as a cooperative named after Vakhitov.

The park provides a number of benefits: exemption from land and property taxes for 10 years, ready-made infrastructure, road networks and electricity at a preferential price.

By 2026, the district authorities plan to place at least 19 residents in the park and to create more than 520 jobs, which will provide tax revenues to the regional and republican budgets in the amount of 253.9 million rubles per year.

In 2020, the total volume of investment in fixed assets, excluding budgetary funds, amounted to more than 1.6 billion rubles.

Archaeological finds from 1999 have been preserved on the mountain: the Neolithic Kukmor locality, the medieval village “Zur Kukmara'” and the remains of the 13th – 18th century settlement “Kukmara-1”.

A variety of career guidance events are held by companies such as BalaSkills, JuniorSkills or WorldSkills in district schools.

[5][7] As of 2019, there were six objects of cultural heritage of the republic in the district, including the Rodigins' Felting Factory built in the 1870s.