The Chagodoshcha (, also known as Chagoda, ) is a river in

Boksitogorsky District Boksitogorsky District () is an administrativeOblast Law #32-oz and municipalLaw #78-oz district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Tikhvinsky District in the no ...

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and in Chagodoshchensky, Babayevsky, and

Ustyuzhensky District Ustyuzhensky District () is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipalLaw #1126-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Vologda Oblast, twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borde ...

s of

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. It is a left

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of the

Mologa Mologa () was a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, formerly situated at the confluence of the rivers Mologa and Volga, but now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir. Mologa existed at least since the 12th century. It was a part of ...

. It is long, and the area of its basin . The principal tributaries are the

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(left), the Pes (right), and the Vnina (left). The source of Chagodoshcha lies in the southeast of Leningrad Oblast, south of the town of Pikalyovo. The river flows in a general southeasterly direction and enters Vologda Oblast, where it accepts the Goryun from the left. In Vologda Oblast, the Chagodoshcha turns east and accepts the Lid from the left, and, just upstream from the settlement of

Chagoda Chagoda () is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Chagodoshchensky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated on the river Chagodoshcha (Volga's drainage basin, b ...

, the Pes from the right. The urban-type settlement of Chagoda is located on both banks of the Chagodoshcha. The river crosses Chagodoshchensky District from the west to the east, and subsequently runs at the border between Babayevsky (north) and Ustyuzhensky (south) Districts, turns northeast and enters Babayevsky District where it accepts the Vnina from the left. It then turns southeast and enters Ustyuzhensky District. The mouth of the Chagodoshcha is in the settlement of Imeni Zhelyabova. The river basin of the Chagodoshcha comprises the eastern part of Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad Oblast, the northeastern part of

Khvoyninsky District Khvoyninsky District () 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 with Boksitogorsky District of Leningrad ...

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, as well as the whole area of Chagodoshchensky District, the south of Babayevsky District, and minor areas in Ustyuzhensky District, all of Vologda Oblast. Both Chagodoshchensky District and its center, the urban-type settlement of Chagoda, are named after the river. A big portion of the lower course of the Chagodoshcha, downstream of the mouth of the Goryun River, belongs to

Tikhvinskaya water system The Tihvinskaya water system () was one of the waterways connecting the Volga River with the Baltic Sea, and specifically the Mologa River with Syas River. In terms of the current administrative division of Russia, the waterway belongs to Vologda ...

, one of the waterways constructed in the early 19th century to connect the river basins of the

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and the

Neva The Neva ( , ; , ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth- ...

. Currently, it is not used for any commercial navigation.

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