Lake Kenozero (russian: Кенозеро) is a freshwater lake, located in the south-west of

Plesetsky District Plesetsky District (russian: Плесе́цкий райо́н) is an administrative district (raion) one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.Law #65-5-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Plesetsky Municipal District.Law ...

of Arkhangelsk Oblast in

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. It is one of the biggest lakes in Arkhangelsk Oblast and the biggest one in Plesetsky District. The area of the lake is , and the area of its basin is . Lake Kenozero is the source of the Kena, a tributary of the Onega. The lake thus belongs to the Onega basin and the

White Sea The White Sea (russian: Белое море, ''Béloye móre''; Karelian and fi, Vienanmeri, lit. Dvina Sea; yrk, Сэрако ямʼ, ''Serako yam'') is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. It is s ...

basin. The lake is located close to the border of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Republic of Karelia. It belongs to

Kenozersky National Park Kenozersky National Park (russian: Кенозерский национальный парк) is a national park in the north of Russia, located in Kargopolsky and Plesetsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast. It was established December 28, 1 ...

. The basin of Lake Kenozero covers a vast area in the western part of Plesetsky District and some minor areas of Onezhsky District. The main tributary of the lake is the Pocha, which, in turn, flows out of Lake Pochozero. The main tributary of Lake Pochozero is the Undosha. The source of the Undosha is

Lake Undozero Lake Undozero (russian: Ундозеро) is a freshwater lake, located in the west of Plesetsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is one of the biggest lakes in Arkhangelsk Oblast and the second biggest one in Plesetsky District. The ...

, one of the biggest lakes of the region, and a major right tributary is the Toksha. The lake has a complex shape and in fact consists of three lakes connected by straights: Lake Kenozero proper, Lake Svinoye, and Lake Dolgoye. The shape is determined by the fact that Lake Kenozero is located in the rift of the earthcrust, in contrast to other lakes in Kenozersky National Park, all of them being of glacial origin. There are over 70 islands on Lake Kenozero. Until the 1990s, the lake served for

timber rafting Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across a lake or other body of water. It is arguably, after log driving, the second cheapest me ...

. The rafts were made in the course of the Undosha and the destination was the Onega. There are a dozen of villages at the lakeshore, the biggest of which are Vershinino and Pershlakhta. The road connects the northern shore (in particular, Ust-Pocha, Vershinino, and Pershlakhta) with ''Onezhsky Trakt'', the road connecting Kargopol via

Plesetsk Plesetsk (russian: Плесе́цк) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Plesetsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated about northeast of Moscow and south of Arkhangelsk. Municipally, it is ...

Yemetsk Yemetsk (russian: Емецк) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Yemetskoye Rural Settlement of Kholmogorsky District Kholmogorsky District (russian: Холмого́рский райо́н) is an administrative distri ...

. The road continues north to Pochozero and upstream Toksha River to the village of Nizhneye Ustye. There is regular bus service on this road, connecting Nizhneye Ustye with the selo of Konyovo and eventually with the district center of

. The roads at the western and southern shores are not all-seasonal and are connected to the road network in the village of

Morshchikhinskaya Morshchikhinskaya (russian: Морщихинская) is a rural locality (a village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both ...

on Lake Lyokshmozero. The 2014 film "

The Postman's White Nights ''The Postman's White Nights'' (russian: Белые ночи почтальона Алексея Тряпицына; ''Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna'') is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It tells the stor ...

" is set in Lake Kenozero.

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