Verkhnyaya Toyma (Russian: Ве́рхняя То́йма) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Verkhnetoyemsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Northern Dvina River.

Janet Martin considered Toima (sic) the southern extreme of Novgorodian control over the Dvina basin in this period.

The 1219 chronicle mentions ethnonym toymokary (Russian: ... И поиде тои зимö Семьюнъ Öминъ въ 4 стöх на Тоимокары ...).

The 1237 Tale of the Death of the Russian Land mentions "Toymichs pagans" living between "the Karelians" and Veliky Ustyug (Russian: ...от корöлы до Оустьюга, гдö тамо бяхоу тоимици погании...),[10] a location roughly aligned with the Northern Dvina basin.

[14] At any rate, the Toymas disappeared before the 17th century, when their existence could be recorded in Muscovite sources, either through russification or through earlier assimilation by other Uralic peoples.

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

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