Within the framework of administrative divisions, Birsky District is one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan.[1] It is divided into fourteen selsoviets, comprising seventy-five rural localities.[6] The town of Birsk serves as its administrative center,[3] despite being incorporated separately as a town of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts (and which, in addition to Birsk, also includes two rural localities).[6]