Shemonaikha district was formed on January 17, 1928 from Shemonaevskaya, parts of Kalininskaya, Ubinskaya volosts
Semipalatinsk district and part of Krasnooktyabrskaya volost
Ust-Kamenogorsk district with the center in the village of Shemonaikha. On June 11, 1959, the Pakhotny, Verkhubinsky, Vydrikhinsky and Bolsherechensky village councils of the abolished Verkh-Ubinsky district were attached to the Shemonaikha district. ==References==