Vizhas

The Vizhas crosses the tundra south of the Chosha Gulf and empties into that inlet of the Barents Sea. Its waters support salmon and whitefish among other northern fish, while wetlands border the shallow coast. To the west, Pomor sailors used the Chosha portage between the Chizha and Chosha rivers in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, avoiding a long voyage around the exposed Kanin Peninsula.