[1] The Komyshuvakha, Konka, Sherebets, Verkhnia Tersa, and Mala Tokmachka Rivers flowed through the raion.

[5] Orikhiv Raion was first established on 7 March 1923 as part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[1] Orikhiv Raion was governed by the Orikhiv Raion Council (Ukrainian: Оріхівська районна рада, Orikhivs'ka raionna rada), which consisted of 48 locally elected deputies.

Consequently, raions were subdivided into councils, which were the prime level of administrative division in the country.

Each of the raion's urban populated places administered their own councils, often containing a few villages and rural settlements within its jurisdiction.