Trends in detrital zircon age distribution patterns are used to constrain the paleotectonic and paleogeographic conditions during deposition of the late Ediacaran - Early Cambrian sedimentary successions in northwestern, western, and southwestern Baltica. Detrital zircons from three sandstone samples collected from a drill-core drilled in northeastern Estonia and four sandstone samples collected from three drill-cores located in the Volyn region of Ukraine were dated using the U-Pb LA-ICP-MS isotope technique. The resulting age patterns are compared with the published data for southwestern Ukraine and Moldova, eastern Poland, Belarus, and northwestern Russia to constrain the late Ediacaran - Early Cambrian evolution of the sedimentary basins developed on Baltica. All sedimentary basins from these areas of Baltica show a transition during that interval from a passive continental margin to collisional settings, which has been triggered by the pre-Schythides and Santacrusades orogenies along the south-southwestern and, to a lesser extent, by the Timanian Orogeny along the north-northeastern and eastern (in modern coordinates) margins of Baltica.