[7] Ostrovsky District is located in the southwest of Kostroma Oblast, about 10km north of the Volga River as it runs west to east.

The terrain is flat or slightly hilly, with pine-larch forests (southern taiga) covering much of the district.

The terrain is flat to slightly hilly, with a glacier-formed landscape of moraines, swamps, and lakes.

The Mera River [ru] runs south to the Volga.

At that time it was part of the Kineshma District of the Ivanovo Industrial Region.