 As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sharypovsky Municipal District and is divided into seven rural settlements (corresponding to the administrative district's selsoviets).The krai town of Sharypovo is incorporated separately from the district as Sharypovo Urban Okrug.A species Sineleutherus issedonicus was described by A. O. Averianov, A. V. Lopatin and S. A. Krasnolutskii in 2011.