Nes

Nes lies near the mouth of the Nes River on the eastern shore of the Mezen Gulf, at the edge of the Kanin tundra. The river's mouth is strongly affected by tides: the naturalist Ivan Lepekhin described its shallows drying at low water and the force of the incoming tide. In the eighteenth century he encountered Nenets people here, in a country where the sea, rivers and tundra meet.