The Kodina (russian: Кодина) is a river in
Primorsky and
Onezhsky Districts of
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...
in
Russia. It is a right
tributary of the
Onega. It is long, and the area of its basin .
The main tributaries of the Kodina are the
Senzera, the
Vychera, and the
Ramenga (all from the right).
The river basin of the Kodina comprises the north-eastern part of Onezhsky District as well as area in the south of Primorsky District and in the north of
Plesetsky District.
The source of the Kodina is in the swamps in the southern part of Primorsky District, about a dozen kilometers southeast of
Lake Voyozero
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...
(which belongs to the
Northern Dvina basin, not to the Onega Basin). The river flows in the southern direction, enters Onezhsky District and turns southwest. It is populated downstream from the
selo of Kodino. The mouth of the Kodina is in the place where the Onega is separated into two streams (the Kodina empties into the eastern one), downstream from the village of Antsiferovsky Bor.
The Kodina flows in the coniferous forests (
taiga), and until the 1990s, the river was used for
timber rafting. Downstream from Kodino, there are occasional open areas and
floodplains, occupied by meadows.
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Rivers of Arkhangelsk Oblast