diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/wsgi/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/wsgi/__init__.py
index ecbc256287..7c16ff2b9b 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/wsgi/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/wsgi/__init__.py
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ def response_hook(span: Span, environ: WSGIEnvironment, status: str, response_he
 import wsgiref.util as wsgiref_util
 from timeit import default_timer
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, TypeVar, cast
+from urllib.parse import quote
 
 from opentelemetry import context, trace
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation._semconv import (
@@ -371,7 +372,27 @@ def collect_request_attributes(
     else:
         # old semconv v1.20.0
         if _report_old(sem_conv_opt_in_mode):
-            result[HTTP_URL] = redact_url(wsgiref_util.request_uri(environ))
+            path_info = environ.get("PATH_INFO", "")
+            try:
+                result[HTTP_URL] = redact_url(
+                    wsgiref_util.request_uri(environ)
+                )
+            except UnicodeEncodeError as e:
+                url = wsgiref_util.application_uri(environ)
+                path = environ.get("PATH_INFO", "")
+                # Taken from repercent_broken_unicode function in django/utils/encoding
+                repercent = quote(
+                    path[e.start : e.end], safe=b"/#%[]=:;$&()+,!?*@'~"
+                )
+                path = path[: e.start] + repercent.encode().decode()
+                # Most of this taken directly from original wsgiref library https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/bbe589f93ccaf32eb95fd9d1f8f3dc9a536e8db1/Lib/wsgiref/util.py#L61
+                if not environ.get("SCRIPT_NAME"):
+                    url += path[1:]
+                else:
+                    url += path
+                if environ.get("QUERY_STRING"):
+                    url += "?" + environ["QUERY_STRING"]
+                result[HTTP_URL] = url
 
     remote_addr = environ.get("REMOTE_ADDR")
     if remote_addr:
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/tests/test_wsgi_middleware.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/tests/test_wsgi_middleware.py
index 5a6e2d21f7..108cdf95f6 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/tests/test_wsgi_middleware.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-wsgi/tests/test_wsgi_middleware.py
@@ -831,6 +831,21 @@ def test_remove_sensitive_params(self):
             expected.items(),
         )
 
+    def test_unicode_path_info_is_utf8_encoded(self):
+        self.environ["HTTP_HOST"] = "mock"
+        self.environ["PATH_INFO"] = "/заказ"
+        self.environ["QUERY_STRING"] = "foo=bar"
+
+        expected = {
+            HTTP_URL: "http://mock/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7?foo=bar",
+            NET_HOST_PORT: 80,
+        }
+
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(
+            otel_wsgi.collect_request_attributes(self.environ).items(),
+            expected.items(),
+        )
+
 
 class TestWsgiMiddlewareWithTracerProvider(WsgiTestBase):
     def validate_response(