The district was located far away from railroad in which numerically dominated settlements of khutir type (farmsteads). Village Dovbysh was a small settlement around porcelain factory. The district did not have telephone and telegraph communications and by general estimates it was economically backwards. At the beginning stage the district was composed of 26 rural communities (so called selsoviet) with general area of 620 km2. Later 108 populated places were united into 34 communities (30 Polish, 2 Ukrainian, 2 German). In percentage relation the population consisted of 68.8% of Polish people, 19.2% of Ukrainians, 8.8% of Germans, 2.5% of Jews, 0.5% of Russians. In 1932 the number of communities increased to 38 with 34 being Polish.