Kerzhenets
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The Kerzhenets () is a river in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga, joining it near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
Key facts
- River.name
- Kerzhenets
- River.image
- Kerjenets-2005-08-21.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Kerzhenets near "Ozero" railway station
- River.mouth
- Volga
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Russia
- River.length_km
- 290
- River.basin_size_km2
- 6,140
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Kerjenets-2005-08-21.jpg
- Length
- 290
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- tributary
- Bolshaya Velikusha
- Commons category
- Kerzhenets
- mouth of the watercourse
- Volga
- watershed area
- 6140
- discharge
- 19.6
- lake on watercourse
- Cheboksary Reservoir
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Kerzhenets () is a river in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga, joining it near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod. It is long, and has a drainage basin of .
==History== After the schism (Raskol) of the 1660s within the Russian Orthodox Church, the densely forested shores of the Kerzhenets became the refuge for many Old Believers. Their settlements, called Kerzhenets sketes (), remained numerous into the 19th century, and the people themselves were known as the Kerzhaks (Кержаки).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kerzhenets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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