The Olonka (russian: Олонка) is a river in the
Republic of Karelia, Russia. It gave the name to the town of
Olonets
Olonets (russian: Оло́нец; krl, Anus, olo, Anuksenlinnu; fi, Aunus, Aunuksenkaupunki or Aunuksenlinna) is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Olonka River to th ...
by the river and eventually to the surrounding territory (
Olonets Governorate
The Olonets Governorate or Government of Olonets was a '' guberniya'' (governorate) of north-western Imperial Russia, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded west by Finland, north and east by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and sou ...
, Olonets
Krai
A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR.
Etymologically, the word is relate ...
, now
Olonetsky District Olonetsky (masculine), Olonetskaya (feminine), or Olonetskoye (neuter) may refer to:
* Olonetsky District, a district of the Republic of Karelia, Russia
*Olonetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation incorporating the town of Olonets and eight ...
). It flows out of the reservoir
Utozero and discharges into
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga (; rus, Ла́дожское о́зеро, r=Ladozhskoye ozero, p=ˈladəʂskəjə ˈozʲɪrə or rus, Ла́дога, r=Ladoga, p=ˈladəɡə, fi, Laatokka arlier in Finnish ''Nevajärvi'' ; vep, Ladog, Ladoganjärv) is a fresh ...
. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
The 1906 Russian ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary'' writes that Olonka flows from
Lake Topornoye
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 ...
, through lakes
Vagvozero,
Utozero and
Torosozero, and eventually to
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga (; rus, Ла́дожское о́зеро, r=Ladozhskoye ozero, p=ˈladəʂskəjə ˈozʲɪrə or rus, Ла́дога, r=Ladoga, p=ˈladəɡə, fi, Laatokka arlier in Finnish ''Nevajärvi'' ; vep, Ladog, Ladoganjärv) is a fresh ...
.
[ This section is now referred to as Topornaya (Топорная). The highest point of this drainage chain is Kaskozero, which overspills into Lake Pyyre Järvi ( Pyureyarvi, Пюреярви), which is connected by a shallow creek to Topornoye."Rivers of the Shuya River Basin"]
Most important tributaries are
Megrega (by Olonets) and
Tuksa rivers.
[Article "Olonka"]
in ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume ...
''
References
Rivers of the Republic of Karelia
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