Mezen

Here the upper Mezen, known to the Komi as Mozyn, winds north through the forests of Udora on its long way to the White Sea. The villages of Udora lay along the river; one of them took the name Rozhdestvenskoye from its church of the Nativity. Until 1780 Udora belonged to the province of Archangel, and afterwards to the Yarensk district of Vologda.