Vokhma

Vokhma

 

an urban-type settlement and center of Vokhma Raion, Kostroma Oblast, RSFSR, 100 km northeast of the Shar’ia railroad station on the Galich-Kirov line. Population, 4,200 (1968). Vokhma has a milk plant, a linen factory, and a logging and timber-distribution establishment.


Vokhma

 

a river, mainly in Kostroma Oblast, RSFSR; right tributary of the Vetluga’s upper course. Length, 219 km; basin area, 5,560 sq km. It rises in a swampy area of the Severnye Uvaly and flows in a wide valley with sloping banks. It overflows in the spring. The river can be used for floating logs.