The Syamzhena (russian: Сямжена) is a river in Sokolsky and

Syamzhensky District Syamzhensky District (russian: Ся́мженский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1122-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the oblast and borders ...

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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 ...

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. It is a left

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of the

Kubena The Kubena (russian: Кубена) is a river in Konoshsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast and Vozhegodsky, Syamzhensky, Kharovsky, Sokolsky, and Ust-Kubinsky Districts of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is long, and the area of its basin . Th ...

. It is long, and the area of its basin . Its main tributaries are the Shichenga (right) and the

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(right). The center of Syamzhensky District, the '' selo'' of

Syamzha Syamzha (russian: Ся́мжа) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Syamzhensky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Syamzhena River, a tributary of the Kubena River. It also serves as the ...

, is located on both banks of the Syamzhena. The name of the Syamzhena originates from

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and means "moss water" or "water from the swamp". The names of Syamzhensky District and its center, the ''selo'' of Syamzha (which was established in 1935 by merging a number of villages at the crossing of the Syamzhena by the highway connecting

Vologda Vologda ( rus, Вологда, p=ˈvoləɡdə) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda (river), Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. ...

and

Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ; rus, Арха́нгельск, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies o ...

) are derived from the Syamzhena. The river basin of the Syamzhena comprises the south and the center of Syamzhensky District, as well as the northeastern part of Sokolsky District and minor areas in the west of

Totemsky District Totemsky District (russian: То́темский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1114-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast and borders with V ...

. A relatively big lake,

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, drains into the Shichenga River and thus belongs to the river basin of the Syamzhena. The source of the Syamzhena is located in the northeast of Sokolsky District. The upper course of the river runs across the gilly landscape of glacial origin (

Kharovsk Ridge Kharovsk (russian: Ха́ровск) is a town and the administrative center of Kharovsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kubena River, north of Vologda, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: ...

), with the heights between and . In Sokolsky District, the Syamzhena flows west, further it turns north and enters Syamzhensky District, and at the confluence of the Shichenga from the right the river turns west again. The mouth of the Syamzhena is located in the village of Ust-Reka.

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