Badozhsky

Badozhsky Pogost stood on the Kovzha, a river of the White Lake basin. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries boats travelled upstream to the settlement, where a portage led towards the Vytegra and Lake Onega. Local people carried travellers and goods over the watershed, linking the water routes of the Volga basin with those leading north and west. River and portage made the pogost a useful stopping place in a country of forest and lakes.