Pechenzhitsa

Northern Dvina basin; Sukhona is shown

Pechenzhitsa (Russian: Печеньжица is a river in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is part of the Northern Dvina basin and is a right tributary of Sukhona river and flows through the Babushkinsky and Totemsky Districts of the oblast into Sukhona 298km from its mouth. Its largest tributary is Mikhalitsa.[1]

The name is the diminutive of the toponym Печеньга (not to be confused with Pechenga, Печенга) and is part of the Finnic substrate of the toponymy of Northern Russia.[2]

References

  1. ^ Река Печеньжица, Государственный водный реестр России [State Water Registry of Russia]
  2. ^ Матвеев А. К., Субстратная топонимия Русского Севера. Часть I, Екатеринбург: Изд-во Урал. ун-та, 2001 p. 1111



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