The Shozma (russian: Шожма) is a river in
Nyandomsky District
Nyandomsky District (russian: Ня́ндомский 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 Nyandomsky Municipal Distri ...
of
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Arkhangelsk Oblast (russian: Арха́нгельская о́бласть, ''Arkhangelskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It includes the Arctic Ocean, Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land ...
in
Russia
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. It is a left
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
Mosha. It is long.
The river flows out of Lake Big Shozhma (russian:
Bolshoye Shozmozero), crosses the
Arkhangelsk-Moscow railway near the village of
Shipakhovsky and crosses the village, then flows to the north up to village of
Shozhma, which is on the left bank, there it turns to the east. The Shozhma flows in the general direction of the north-east. Another settlement on the river banks was the village of Kondratovskaya (with historical name the "Village of Shozhma" (russian: derevnya Shozhma) in the middle course of the river. Kondratovskaya is now deserted.
References
Rivers of Arkhangelsk Oblast
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