Most of the area belongs to the drainage basin of the Sozh, a left tributary of the Dnieper.

Another major left tributary of the Dnieper, the Desna, also crosses the area of the district in the southeast, and a minor area in the southeast of the district belongs to the drainage basin of the Desna.

[9] On 12 July 1929, governorates and uyezds were abolished, and Pochinkovsky District with the administrative center in the town of Pochinok was established on the territories which previously belonged to Smolensky, Krasninsky, and Roslavslsky Districts of Smolensk Governorate.

[10] On 12 July 1929, Stodolishchensky District with the administrative center in the selo of Stodolishche was established on the areas which previously belonged to Roslavlsky and Yelninsky Uyezds of Smolensk Governorate.

[11] A railway connecting Smolensk and Bryansk crosses the district from northwest to southeast.

The R120 road (formerly A141), which connects Smolensk with Bryansk and Oryol, crosses the district from the northwest to southeast, passing close to Pochinok.

There is a road between Pochinok and Yelnya, as well as another one across the border to Mstsislaw where it continues to Orsha and Krychaw.

Tvardovsky, a 20th-century Russian poet, was born in this village in 1910, but his family house was destroyed during World War II.