Orenburg Governorate
After the forces of Ivan the Terrible conquered the Khanate of Kazan, these lands were reassigned to the Menzelinsky governor of the Kazan order (as the local administrative body was called in the 16th-17th centuries). Since 1708 the territory was part of the Kazan Governorate, become part of the Ufa province from 1719, and from 1728 belonged to the governor of Kazan. Starting in 1735 the district was part of the Bashkir commission until it ended up in the Orenburg Governorate in 1744, it would remain in the governorate until 1781 when it was subordinated to the Ufa Governorate, in 1796 the district again became part of the Orenburg province until it became part of the Menzelinsky district Ufa province in 1865.