It bordered the Don Host Oblast to the north, the Black Sea to the west, the Kavkazsky otdel to the south, and the Stavropol Governorate to the east.

The area of the Yeysky otdel included most of the contemporary Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

The majority of the population indicated Ukrainian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Russian speaking minority.

[3] According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Yeysky otdel had a population of 384,846 on 14 January [O.S.

1 January] 1916, including 191,196 men and 193,650 women, 360,038 of whom were the permanent population, and 24,808 were temporary residents:[6]