The area of the district is 72,352 square kilometers (27,935 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Tilichiki.

Lantzeff speaks also of the Olyutora River,[8] which does not appear on modern maps and which he distinguishes from the Pakhacha.

In 1714, Russians built the ostrog (fortress) of Olyutorsk to control the coast and land route from Kamchatka to Anadyrsk; a function it shared with Aklansk.

The Alyutors, a branch of the Koryaks lived in the area or somewhat west.