The area of the district is 2,039 square kilometers (787 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Srednyaya Akhtuba.

[4] As an administrative division, the district is divided into one town of district significance (Krasnoslobodsk), one urban-type settlement (Srednyaya Akhtuba), and nine selsoviets.

[6] Until April 2012, the municipal district included all of the inhabited localities of the administrative district, with the exception of one rural locality (the settlement of Uralsky), which was municipally a part of Volzhsky Urban Okrug.

[6] In April 2012, the settlement of Uralsky was merged into the city of Volzhsky.