Ukhta

The Ukhta is a left-bank tributary of the Izhma in the Pechora basin. Its name is related to a Finno-Ugric word for a river or channel, and a Russian geographical work of 1627 recorded it as the Ukhna flowing into the Izhma. Oil was known along the river, where early Russian extraction began. The Ukhta passes through the northern forest country before its waters join the Izhma and then the Pechora on their way to the Arctic.