The area of the district is 1,545 square kilometers (597 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Sovetskoye.

The terrain is mostly peidmont forest-steppe, just west of the foothills of the Western Sayan Range of the Altai Mountains.

The Katun River forms the eastern and northern borders of the district, as it flows south-to-north to the Ob River to the north.

The Katun is typically frozen from December to early April.