Mologa River

Position of Modga ( Молога ) in the catchment of the Rybinsk Reservoir

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The Mologa (Russian Молога ) is a left tributary of the Volga River in the north-western, European part of Russia.

Description

It rises about 30 km west of Beschezk at Kljutschewaja in Tver Oblast in the Valdai Hills. They first flows in an easterly direction until it turns to the north at Beschezk. It flows through several lakes, including the Werestowo. Then she turns to the southwest and flows in a wide right turn to the north-west of Tver Oblast.

Approximately 20 kilometers from the border with Novgorod Oblast it bends again towards the north. They reached the far east of the Novgorod Oblast south of Pestovo, flows through the city, and crossed after a few kilometers, the border of the Vologda Oblast.

Here the Mologa turns first to the northeast. After Ustjuschna it flows very winding to the east and southeast, and finally flows about 50 km west of Cherepovets in the Rybinsk Reservoir on the Volga.

At the mouth of the Mologa in the Volga was up to the completion of the dam in 1947, the city of the same name Mologa.

The river is frozen from late November to late April / early May. In the ice-free period, he is navigable to the community Schelbajow.