Its area was 746 square kilometres, and the administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Lysianka.

The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four.

[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 22,202 (2020 est.

)[3] At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas:[4] The population of the Lysianka Raion (as of 2001) was 28,721.

The villages of the Lysianka Raion included: