Ust-Vayenga

Ust-Vayenga stands where the Vayenga enters the right bank of the Northern Dvina. The great river links this forested inland district with the White Sea, while the tributary leads eastward into the woods. The parish at the river mouth consisted of several villages, recorded in the early seventeenth century. Their riverside clearings formed a small inhabited pocket amid the extensive forests of the Dvina basin.