Minor areas in the north of the district belong to the drainage basin of the Mologa River, another major left tributary of the Volga.

In theis area, known as Orshinsky Mokh, there are also many lakes and swamps, and peat production is active.

In the Middle Ages, the area was divided between Principality of Tver and the Novgorod Republic.

Rameshkovsky District, with the administrative center in Rameshki, was established within Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast.

On July 12, 1929 Goritsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Goritsy was created as well.

[2] The main agricultural specializations of the district are cattle breeding with meat and milk production, as well as crops growing.

There is no food industry infrastructure in the district, and the agricultural production is exported to Tver and to Moscow Oblast.

[2] A road connecting Tver with Vesyegonsk via Bezhetsk crosses the district from south to north.

The district contains twenty-two cultural heritage monuments of federal significance (six of them located in Rameshki) and additionally forty-three objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance.