Ust-Ugla

Ust-Ugla stood where the Ugla entered the Sheksna, on the water route between White Lake and the Volga. It was an old trading centre of the Belozersk region, mentioned in fifteenth-century charters. A survey of 1626–1627 records a landing place at the river mouth, where officials collected duties on boats and their cargoes. Merchants could approach along either the Sheksna or the Ugla.