Kazan Governorate
The Apastovsky District is located in the historical region "Hill Bank Land" or Taw yağı of the Golden Horde, Khanate of Kazan and Kazan Governorate. It shares borders with Buinsky District, Tetyushskyy, Kamsko-Ustyinsky, Verkhneuslonsky and Kaybitsky districts of the republic, as well as with the Yalchiksky districts of Chuvashia.