[3] The whole area of the district belongs to the drainage basin of the Mologa River, a major tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir.

[2] The area of the district was originally populated by the Finnic peoples, in the 11th century, Slavs started to arrive.

In the 13th century, the town of Ilovl (Ilov) was located in the area, which belonged to the Novgorod Republic.

[9] On April 25, 1921, Vesyegonsky Uyezd was transferred to newly established Rybinsk Governorate.

Mikhaylovsky District, with the administrative center in the selo of Smerdyn, was established within Bezhetsk Okrug of Moscow Oblast.

[11] The main agricultural specialization of the district is cattle breeding with meat and milk production.

The federal monuments include the complex of the Ascencion Church (1749) in the selo of Mikhaylovskoye, the tomb of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin, a participant of the Battle of Chesma, in the village of Zastizhye, as well as a number of archeological sites.