Between 1992 and 2012, he served in the Russian Armed Forces and divisions of the Federal Security Service.

[1] In 2002, he received additional education at the Golitsyn Border Institute of the Federal Security Service with a degree in jurisprudence.

[1] In January 2013, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Property Management.

[1] In September 2018, Babuskin was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasian Federal District, with Aleksandr Matovnikov.

[1] On 5 June 2019, by decree of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Babuskin was appointed as acting governor of the Astrakhan Oblast.