December 18], 1708 Tsar Peter the Great issued an edict which established seven governorates.
The centers of the following uyezds of Archangelgorod Governorate were located in the present-day area of Vologda Oblast, On June 9 [O.S.
In 1924, the uyezds of Northern Dvina Governorate were abolished in favor of the new divisions, the districts (raions).
In 1922, Olonets Governorate was abolished, and Vytegorsky Uyezd was transferred to Petrograd Governorate (later Leningrad Oblast), with the exception of three volosts, which were moved to Kargopolsky Uyezd and later ended up in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
On September 23, 1937, all these districts (with the towns of Cherepovets, Babayevo, Vytegra, Ustyuzhna, Belozersk, and Kirillov) were transferred to newly established Vologda Oblast.
This list includes the districts which existed in the current area of Vologda Oblast.
[8] Four of the districts were renamed: Ledengsky into Babushkinsky, Shuysky into Mezhdurechensky, Sverdlovsky into Sokolsky, and Verkhne-Chagodoshchensky into Chagodoshchensky.