Babayevo (Russian: Баба́ево) is a town and the administrative center of Babayevsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located in the south of the district, on the Kolp River (Volga's basin) 246 kilometers (153 mi) west of Vologda, the administrative center of the oblast.

[3] In 1882, a metallurgical plant, which produced telegraph wires, nails, and hooks, was built here.

[citation needed] On September 23, 1937, Babayevsky District was transferred to newly established Vologda Oblast.

In Babayevo, there is a station on the railway connecting Vologda to St. Petersburg via Cherepovets.

Babayevo has an all-season road connection south to Ustyuzhna and north to Borisovo-Sudskoye.