Lake Kovzhskoye Both are on the highway connecting Vologda with Medvezhyegorsk via Vytegra and Pudozh. Lake Kovzhskoye Lake Kovzhskoye () is a freshwater lake, located in the center of Vytegorsky District of Vologda Oblast in Russia. It is one of the biggest lakes in Vologda Oblast and the second biggest one in Vytegorsky District behind Lake Onega. The area of the lake is , and the area of its basin is . The main tributary of the lake is the Iles River. Lake Kovzhskoye is the source of Kovzha River, one of the principal tributaries of Lake Beloye. The lake belongs to
Lake Vozhe the fourth lake (also behind the Rybinsk Reservoir). Historically, Lake Vozhe was on the trading route connecting the basings of the Volga and the Onega via the Sheksna River. There is one big island on the lake, Spassky Island. On the island, ruins of the former monastery are located. The only inhabited locality on the lakeshore is the village of Charonda which is a former trading settlement founded in the 13th century, currently having the population under ten and almost deserted. Charonda does not have all-seasonal land connections. Formerly, the village of Vasilyevskaya was located on the northern lakeshore. It