Babushkinsky district (Vologda region)

Area 7760 km² (5.3% of the region, 4th place among the districts). The distance to Vologda is 249 km.

This area of ​​the Vologda Oblast is considered one of the cleanest in the ecological sense. A minimum of industrial enterprises, a healthy taiga massif - these are the main components of this characteristic. The territory of the district rightfully has the value of a balneological resort. Since time immemorial, salt industries have developed here, and in recent decades, mineral springs have been discovered. The surrounding forests are famous for the abundance of diverse animals and game. Local lakes and rivers flowing through the territory of the region are rich in fish.

Babushkin I.V. on a postage stamp of the USSR

The salty "underground seas" lurking in the bowels of the earth along the Ledenge River were discovered by people back in the 15th century . Since then, for four centuries, labor in the salt mines has become the main occupation of the Lolengians. Subsequently, whole dynasties of Old Russian “engineers” arose here, as historians respectfully called salt miners. They anticipated many of the techniques of drilling equipment that are used today.

A native of such an engineering family was the famous revolutionary Ivan Babushkin , in whose honor the old village of Ledengskoye was renamed after 1917. Salt wealth brought once to Ledengsky the father of the great composer Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky. As the head of the Onega Salt Board, he cared for the improvement of the village and tried to improve the difficult working conditions in the fields. His name is associated with the opening of the first school, where the children of saltworks were engaged. Tchaikovsky created a brass band in Ledengo, invited artists and musicians to teach children. Thanks to I.P. Tchaikovsky, the first village development plan was developed.

The district was formed on July 15, 1929 as the Ledengsky district of the Vologda district of the Northern Territory on part of the territory of the former Totem district of the Vologda province . With the Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of July 30, 1931, the territory of the abolished Roslyatinsky District was annexed to the Ledengo District, but by the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of January 25, 1935, the Roslyatinsky District was again restored. After the adoption of the Constitution of the USSR in 1936, the district was part of the Northern Region . After the division of the Northern region, in accordance with the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of September 23, 1937, into the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions, as part of the newly formed Vologda region. February 26, 1941, in connection with the 35th anniversary of the death of I.V. Babushkin , the village of Ledengskoye was renamed to the village of Babushkin, and the district - to Babushkinsky. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 12, 1960, a part of the territory of the re-abolished Roslyatinsky district was annexed to the Babushkinsky district. From December 13, 1962 to January 12, 1965, during the failed all-Union reform of dividing into rural and industrial areas and party organizations, in accordance with the decisions of the November (1962) plenary session of the CPSU Central Committee "on the restructuring of the party leadership of the national economy," the district included many in the USSR was temporarily abolished (enlarged), at that time its territory was transferred to the Totemsky rural area, and instead of the district party committee, a party committee was created - the Totemsk collective-farm state farm, which carried out territorially about their functions on the territory of the former Babushkinsky and Totemsky district . The plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, held on November 16, 1964, restored the former principle of party leadership of the national economy. By the decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of January 12, 1965, the Babushkinskiy district was restored and the CPSU district committee was formed in it ^[3] .

The boundaries of the Babushkinsky district are determined by the law of the Vologda Oblast dated December 6, 2004 No. 1106-OZ with subsequent amendments ^[12] .

On January 1, 2006, 11 rural settlements were created in the district. At the same time, the district included two villages formerly belonging to the Gryazovetsky district , and one village, formerly belonging to the Nyuksen district .

By the law of the Vologda Oblast dated April 8, 2009 No. 1986-OZ ^[13] , the municipal entities of the Zhubrininsky rural settlement and the Roslyatinsky rural settlement were transformed into a municipal formation Roslyatinsky rural settlement with an administrative center in the village of Roslyatino .

By the law of the Vologda Oblast dated June 1, 2015 No. 3667-OZ ^[14] , the following municipalities were transformed by unification:

• Idskoe rural settlement , Minkovskoye rural settlement and Yurkinskoye rural settlement - to the Minkovskoye rural settlement with an administrative center in the village of Minkovo ;
• Logduz rural settlement and Podbolotnoye rural settlement - to the rural settlement Podbolotnoye with the administrative center in the village of Koksharka .

On March 30, 2016, Babushkinskoye and Demyanovskoye rural settlements were merged into a Babushkinskoye rural settlement with a center in the village of Babushkina ^[15] .

Since 2016, there are 141 settlements in the Babushkinskiy district consisting of six rural settlements:

The district has local branches of three political parties:

• All-Russian political party " United Russia " - 114 members.
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 16 members.
• The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia - 9 members.

The P7 highway passes through the district.

There is a bus station and regular inter-district and intra-district communication along the routes:

• Grandma's - Vologda
• Grandma's - Totma
• Grandmother - Logduz (daily at 16.10)
• Grandmother's - Vasilievo
• Grandma's - Bunnies
• Grandmother's - Demyanovsky Pogost.

In addition, bus routes pass through Babushkino:

• Vologda - Nikolsk
• Vologda - Kichmengsky Town
• Cherepovets - Nikolsk

Railway stations: Yuza , Kunozh (located on the Monza railway). The Monza Railway is used mainly for forest removal; there is no passenger traffic on it within the region (as of 2007 ).

Until the beginning of the 1990s, air traffic was carried out along the routes:

• Vologda - Village named after Grandma
• Vologda - Roslyatino
• Vologda - Fetinino (near Anikovo).

Flights were carried out by An-2 aircraft.

The main areas of employment are historical agricultural and forest chemical industries. The “salt” past of the region is capable of influencing its future. As early as 1841, the first therapeutic baths were arranged here. The healing properties of groundwater in the future may become the basis for the creation of new balneological sanatoriums and resorts in these parts.

• Belyaev, Pavel Ivanovich - a native of the village of Chelishchevo, an astronaut who flew on March 10, 1965 with Alexei Leonov on the ship "Voskhod-2" .
• Levashev, Alexei Fedorovich (1900-1942) - Soviet military leader, Major General ( 1942 ).

• The site of the administration of Babushkinskiy district
• Information on the portal of the government of the Vologda region
• Monza railway on the "Site about the railway" by Sergey Bolashenko