The area of the district is 16,000 square kilometers (6,200 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Ulyoty.

[1] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Ulyotovsky District is one of the thirty-one in the krai.

[1] The selo of Ulyoty serves as its administrative center.

[1] As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Ulyotovsky Municipal District,[6] to which one urban-type settlement and twenty-two of the administrative district's rural localities belong,[11] and Gorny Urban Okrug,[6] which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the urban-type settlement of Gorny.