Babayevsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast and borders with Vytegorsky District in the north, Belozersky District in the east, Kaduysky District in the southeast, Ustyuzhensky District in the south, Chagodoshchensky District in the southeast, and with Boksitogorsky, Tikhvinsky, and Podporozhsky Districts of Leningrad Oblast in the west. The area of the district is 9,200 square kilometers (3,600 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Babayevo. Population: 21,944 (2010 Russian census); 24,930 ; 29,535 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Babayevo accounts for 55.0% of the district's total population.