The Pes (russian: Песь) is a river in
Khvoyninsky District
Khvoyninsky District (russian: Хвойнинский район) is an administrativeLaw #559-OZ and municipalLaw #396-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders ...
of
Novgorod Oblast
Novgorod Oblast (russian: Новгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Novgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Veliky Novgorod. Some of the oldest Russian cities, including ...
and in
Chagodoshchensky District
Chagodoshchensky District (russian: Чагодо́щенский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1128-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblas ...
of
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 ...
in
Russia
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. It is a right
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
of the
Chagodoshcha
The Chagodoshcha (russian: Чагодоща, also known as Chagoda, russian: Чагода) is a river in Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad Oblast and in Chagodoshchensky, Babayevsky, and Ustyuzhensky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It ...
. It is long, and the area of its basin .
The principal tributary of the Pes is the
Rattsa (left). The urban-type settlements of
Khvoynaya and
Sazonovo are located on the banks of the Pes.
The source of the Pes is
Lake Rakitinskoye
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in the west of Khvoyninsky District. The
Medveda is the principal tributary of Lake Rakitinskoye. The Pes flows in the eastern direction, passes the settlement of Khvoynaya, accepts the
Kushavera from the right, enters Vologda Oblast, and turns northeast. In the settlement of Sazonovo, it accepts the Rattsa from the left. The mouth of the Pes is close to the urban-type settlement of
Chagoda
Chagoda (russian: Ча́года) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Chagodoshchensky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated on the river Chagodoshcha (Volga's basin) from Vologda. Municipall ...
.
The river basin of the Pes comprises the major part (western and central) of Khvoyninsky District, some areas in the east of
Lyubytinsky District
Lyubytinsky District (russian: Любытинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #559-OZ and municipalLaw #357-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borde ...
of Novgorod Oblast, and the southwest of Chagodoshchensky district. In particular, it includes many lakes located in the southwest of Khvoyninsky District.
Until the 1990s, the Pes was used 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 mean ...
.
References
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Rivers of Vologda Oblast
Rivers of Novgorod Oblast