The area of the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug is included in contemporary Dagestan of the Russian Federation.

The district's administrative centre was Temir-Khan-Shura (present-day Buynaksk).

The majority of the population indicated Kumyk to be their mother tongue, with significant Avar-Andean, Dargin, and Russian speaking minorities.

[4] According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Temir-Khan-Shurinskiy okrug had a population of 136,234 on 14 January [O.S.

1 January] 1916, including 72,367 men and 63,867 women, 100,896 of whom were the permanent population, and 35,338 were temporary residents:[7]