Ileza

Ileza takes its name from a river in the northern forests, where the Ileza meets the Kortyuga to form the Kokshenga. A parish and churchyard of Ileza appear in census books of the Vaga district at the end of the seventeenth century. The rivers carry their waters onward through the Ustya and Vaga toward the Northern Dvina, linking this wooded country with the larger river system of the Russian North.