[2] The Battle of Loyew took place in 1649 where a numerically superior force of Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Cossack warleaders Stepan Pobodailo and Mykhailo Krychevsky was defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of hetman Janusz Radziwiłł.

The district was dissolved for several years in the 1960s, being abolished in December 1962 and reinstated in July 1966.

[citation needed] The area of the district is 1,046 square kilometres (404 sq mi).

[6] It is bordered in the west and north by Brahin, Khoiniki, Rechytsa, and Gomel districts of the same region, and in the east - along the Dnieper and partly along its tributary of the Sozh - with the Chernigov oblast of Ukraine.

The population density of the district is 12 square kilometres (4.6 sq mi).