Oshta (russian: О́шта) is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

(a selo) in Megorskoye Rural Settlement,

Vytegorsky District Vytegorsky District (russian: Вытего́рский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1113-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and bord ...

Vologda Oblast Vologda Oblast ( rus, Вологодская область, p=vəlɐˈɡotskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, r=Vologodskaya oblast, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The Oblast has a population of 1,202,444 ...

, Russia. The population was 1,204 as of 2002. There are 19 streets.

Geography

Oshta is located 64 km southwest of

Vytegra Vytegra ( rus, Вы́тегра, p=ˈvɨtʲɪɡrə) is a town and the administrative center of Vytegorsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located along the shores of the Vytegra River on Volga–Baltic Waterway, northwest of Vologda, the ad ...

(the district's administrative centre) by road. Tarasino is the nearest rural locality.Расстояние от Ошты до Вытегры
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Malgora Malgora (russian: Мальгора) is a peak in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is the highest point of the Federal Subject. Despite being a major summit of the Vepsian Upland the name of the mountain is not of Vepsian origin, but is likely based i ...

, the highest point of the

Vepsian Upland Vepsian Upland (russian: Вепсовская возвышенность vep, Vepsän ülüz) is a hilly region of the East European Plain located in Vologda Oblast and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Lake Onega is located to the north. A forested sec ...

, rises to the east of Oshta.

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References

Rural localities in Vytegorsky District Lodeynopolsky Uyezd {{Vytegorsky-geo-stub