Dvina

Northern Dvina Russian: Се́верная Двина́
Northern Dvina starts as the confluence of Yug River (on left) and Sukhona River (on top) near Velikiy Ustyug (photo 2001)
Origin	Yug River and Sukhona River
Mouth	Dvina Bay
Basin countries	Russia
Length	744 km (462 mi)
Mouth elevation	0
Avg. discharge	3332 m³/s[1]
Basin area	357,052 km²

Northern Dvina Quay in Arkhangelsk.

The Northern Dvina (Russian: Се́верная Двина́) is a river in Northern Russia flowing through the Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast into the Dvina Bay of the White Sea. The length is 744 kilometres (462 mi). It should not be confused with Western Dvina.

Navigation and canals

In summer the river is navigable all along and is heavily used for timber floating. The Northern Dvina Canal connects it with the Volga-Baltic Waterway. In the 19th century, a short-lived Northern Ekaterininsky Canal, now abandoned, connected the Northern Dvina basin with the Kama basin as well.

The river was scene of several battles during the Russian Civil War, many involving the Entente interventionist army as part of their North Russia Campaign.

Cities by Northern Dvina

From source to mouth:

• Veliki Ustyug
• Kotlas
• Novodvinsk
• Arkhangelsk
• Severodvinsk, seaport; farther to the west from the delta.

Tributaries of Northern Dvina

• It starts as the confluence of Sukhona (Suhona) and Yug rivers.
• Pinega
• Uftyuga
• Vaga
• Vychegda
• Yomtsa
• Nizhnyaya Toyma

References

External links

• Northern Dvina
• A detailed article about Nortnern Dvina in the 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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