Shalakusha

Shalakusha lies on the Mosha, a tributary of the Onega in the wooded country north of Kargopol. The river valley was part of a network of waterways and portages through which settlers reached the Onega basin. A parish bearing the name Shalakusha existed here; in 1797 it became part of the Ust-Mosha district of Kargopol. Its villages belonged to a landscape of riverbanks and forest clearings.