Pinega

Pinega lies in the forested river country of northern Russia. Near the settlement, a portage linked the Pinega waterway with the Sotka and Kuloy rivers, connecting routes toward the White Sea with the Northern Dvina basin.

The route appears in historical records and maps of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. By the early seventeenth century the settlement was known as Pinezhsky Volok, after the portage. In 1780 it became the district town of Pinega.