The Kodina (russian: Кодина) is a river in Primorsky and

Onezhsky District Onezhsky District (russian: Оне́жский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Arkhangelsk Oblast, twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.Law #65-5-OZ As a subdivisions of Russia#Municip ...

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. It is a right

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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

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. The source of the Kodina is in the swamps in the southern part of Primorsky District, about a dozen kilometers southeast of

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(which belongs to the

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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 (

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), and until the 1990s, the river was used for

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. Downstream from Kodino, there are occasional open areas and

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s, occupied by meadows.

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{{Reflist Rivers of Arkhangelsk Oblast