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

Simultaneously, Krasny Bor was renamed Krasnoborsk, granted town status, and Krasnoborsky Uyezd was established.

In 1918, the area was transferred to the newly established Northern Dvina Governorate and in 1924 the uyezds were abolished in favor of the new divisions, the districts (raions).

In the following years, the district remained within the same borders, but the first-level administrative division of Russia kept changing.

From 1924 to 1959, Cherevkovsky District existed, with its administrative center located in Cherevkovo, initially in Northern Dvina Governorate.

Minor parts of the district belong to the basins of other major tributaries of the Northern Dvina: the Ustya (southwest) and the Pinega (northeast).

[3] The following selsoviets have been established (the administrative centers are given in parentheses):[3] Municipally, the district is divided into seven rural settlements (the administrative centers are given in parentheses):[6] The basis of the economy of the district is timber industry, which is more developed on the left bank of the Northern Dvina than on the right bank.

The district contains fourteen objects classified as cultural and historical heritage by Russian Federal law, and additionally sixty-three objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance.

[15] Aleksandr Borisov, a Russian landscape painter, had an estate in the village of Gorodishchenskaya, close to Krasnoborsk.