Ustye

At the mouth of the Kubena, Ustye looks across the waters of Lake Kubenskoye toward the country north of Vologda. The river brings the drainage of the forested north into the lake, whose outlet joins the Sukhona and the waterways leading toward the Northern Dvina. In the fifteenth century these shores formed part of Zaozerye, a small principality dependent on Yaroslavl. Ustye itself appears in records from the sixteenth century, when the lake and its tributaries joined its inhabitants to a much wider northern river system.