Onega River Onega River The Onega (; ) is a river in Kargopolsky, Plesetsky, and Onezhsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. The Onega connects Lake Lacha with the Onega Bay in the White Sea southwest of Arkhangelsk, flowing in the northern direction. The discharge at the source is and at the mouth is . The river is long, and the area of its basin . Its main tributaries are the Voloshka (right), the Kena (left), the Mosha (right), the Kodina (right), and the Kozha (left). The major tributary of the Lake Lacha is the Svid. The name of the river is
Onega stepanovi by an undivided zone. The surface of the undivided region of "Onega" is covered with small tubercles. "Onega" was originally described by Mikhail Fedonkin as a problematic organism, being grouped together with "Vendia", "Praecambridium" and "Vendomia" as possible stem-group arthropods due to a vague similarity with primitive Cambrian trilobites and arthropods. In 1985 Mikhail Fedonkin erected Phylum Proarticulata, in which he placed: "Onega", "Dickinsonia", "Palaeoplatoda", "Vendia", "Vendomia", "Praecambridium" and "Pseudovendia sp.", although he did not exclude the possibility that "Onega" may still be related to various lower Cambrian arthropods, such as "Skania". Andrey Yu. Ivantsov has proposed that "Onega" be