The district is located in the west of the republic on the right bank of the Volga River and encompasses a total area of 1,373.9 square kilometers (530.5 sq mi).

The Upper Uslon region is characterized by a temperate climate and the transition of soil and vegetation zones from forest to steppe.

Since most of the district's borders are located along the Volga and Sviyaga, there is a blue wavy strip at the bottom of the emblem representing the geographical features of the area.

Like the coat of arms, it has a dominant red background and a blue wavy stripe, which occupies 1/5 of the width of the cloth, at the bottom.

[10][11] In the first half of the 16th century, the territory of the modern Verkhneuslonsky district belonged to the Kazan Khanate, and the nearby Sokolnechya Gora was occupied by outlaws and freebooters.

Due to the constant robberies and raids organized by the so-called “falcons”, the Muscovite state decided to get rid of the dangerous outlaws.

The inhabitants of the village earned their living by mining near Uslonskaya Gora, rolled stones to the shore and loading them onto barges.

Under the reign of Peter the Great, the peasants of the Sviyazhsky district were not assigned to build the new city of St. Petersburg but until the age of 45 they could be recruited for the army.

During World War II, the Pechishchinsky District Flour Mill Plant supplied Verkhniy Uslon with food.

From 1941 to 1942, the Belarusian poet Yanka Kupala (Ivan Dominikovich Lutsevich) lived in a small two-story building next to the plant.

He was approved as the head of the Verkhneuslonsky district in 2011, but after a few months Timofeev was dismissed in relation to a bribe of 5 million rubles and a court sentenced him four years in prison.

The volume of products manufactured in the Verkhneuslonsky district in 2018 amounted to 59.7 million rubles, and the average number of employees working at enterprises there was more than 40 people.

The share of small and medium-sized businesses in the gross territorial product of the Verkhneuslonsky municipal district increased from 26.8 to 30.5% during the period from 2015 to 2018.

As of July 2019, agricultural producers of all forms of ownership used 54.1 thousand hectares of arable land, rearing 10,202 head of cattle, 3,629 cows, 5 020 pigs and 96 horses.

[6] The regional company “Tatkrakhmalpatoka” cultivates and produces dry fermented rye and barley malt which is then supplied to the countries of the former CIS, Poland, Lithuania and China.

In 2017, the company held a leading position in Russia in the production of kvass wort concentrate, maltose syrup and malt extracts.

In 2018, the enterprise planned to replace the equipment in its butter facility and developed a project to increase the daily volume of processed milk by 25%.

[9][27][28] In 2010, the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov announced the idea of creating a science and innovation city on the territory of the Verkhneuslonsky district.

Innopolis has its own special economic zone (SEZ) whose residents receive tax benefits on revenue, transport, property, land and insurance premiums.

The opening of the second industrial park named after Nikolai Lobachevsky with an area of 30 thousand square meters was postponed from the end of 2020 to 2021.

Potential residents, with whom negotiations on cooperation are already underway, plan to work on projects in the field of microelectronics and electromechanics, as well as in industrial robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles together with Innopolis University.

[32] In January-June 2020, the total volume of investment in fixed assets of the district, excluding budgetary funds, amounted to 1.45 billion rubles.

In particular, the international company Leitner Ropeways proposed to link Upper Uslon and the Temple of all religions located in Kazan.

These include the “Mountain pine forest” with an area of 70 hectares, “Kamenny ravine”, “Stratigraphic section of the Kazan and Urzhum stages near the village of Kyzyl-Bayrak” with an estimated age of 260 million years, the ravine “Cheryomushki”, “Klykovsky Sklon”, “Tashevskie Sklony”, “Kuralovskie Rodniki” and the “Sulitsa River”.

The natural monument “Pechishchensky geological section” is a popular site among geologists around the world, since each layer of the rock corresponds to a different era.

Fossil remains of the Upper Permian fauna and flora were found here: ganoid fish, molluscs, sea lilies and algae.

There is a technical school offering courses for professionals like tractor drivers, social workers, and an integrated profession of cook-driver.

Additionally, in the village of Klyuchischi, there is the estate of the Marquis Paulucci dated the late 19th-early 20th centuries, which is in disrepair and is looking for investors for its restoration.