Russian Forests

Between the Pinega and Kuloy stretches a northern forest landscape shaped by rivers and soluble rock. The headwaters of the Kuloy approach the Pinega so closely that travellers once hauled their boats across a short portage. Gypsum and other soluble strata have produced caves and hollows in the country between the rivers. Forest and wet ground surround the waterways that lead towards the Northern Dvina and the White Sea.