Kerzhenets River

Kerzhenets River

Infobox River | river_name = Kerzhenets River



caption = Kerzhenets near "Ozero" railway station
origin =
mouth = Volga River
basin_countries = Russia
length = 290 km
elevation =
discharge =
watershed = 6,140 km²

Kerzhenets River ( _ru. Керженец) is a river in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga, joining the Volga near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod.

There used to be numerous settlements of the Old Believers (called "Керженские скиты", or Kerzhenets monasteries) along the Kerzhenets River in the 17th-19th centuries. Their inhabitants were known as kerzhaks (Кержаки).


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