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

Verkhnetoyemsky District was created on April 10,[citation needed] 1924 and included a part of the former Solvychegodsky Uyezd.

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

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

The central and eastern parts of the district belongs to the basin of the Pinega River with its main tributaries the Vyya (left) and the Ilesha (right).

Crop production was basically unknown, and regular shortages of bread had been recorded due to the seasonal inaccessibility of the area.

The large-scale timber industry only took off in 1929, when Nizhnyaya Toyma Forest Production Company (Верхнетоемский леспромхоз) was established.

There is a road connecting Kotlas and Arkhangelsk on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River.

The four objects protected at the federal level are: The only state museum in the district is Verkhnyaya Toyma District Museum in Verkhnyaya Toyma[13] Nizhnetoyemskaya Volost (now Nizhnetoyemsky Selsoviet) was a center of traditional wood painting crafts in the 19th and 20th centuries.