Both the district and its administrative center were renamed in March 1941 to commemorate Bolshevik revolutionary Ivan Babushkin, who was born in Ledengskoye.

The rivers in the northeast of the district drain into the Sharzhenga, the left tributary of the Yug.

The rivers in the west drain into various right tributaries of the Sukhona, such as the Tolshma, the Ledenga, and the Staraya Totma.

[11] In the course of the administrative reform carried out in 1708 by Peter the Great, the area was included into Archangelgorod Governorate.

Instead, Ledengsky District with the administrative center in the selo of Ledengskoye was established as a part of Vologda Okrug.

[12] During the abortive Khrushchyov administrative reform of the 1960s, Babushkinsky District was briefly disestablished in 1962 and then reestablished in 1965.

[10] As of 2009, there were twelve large-scale farms in the district, mostly producing meat and milk, as well as growing crops.

[15] A paved road connecting Totma with Nikolsk passes through the district and, in particular, through imeni Babushkina.

[16] The district contains 1 object classified as cultural heritage of the federal significance (a monument to Ivan Babushkin in the selo of imeni Babushkina) and 106 objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance.

[18] The Ledengsk Spa Resort in imeni Babushkina uses underground lakes with high concentration of salt.