Shenkursk


Shenkursk

 

a city and the administrative center of Shenkursk Raion, Arkhangel’sk Oblast, RSFSR. Shenkursk has a landing on the right bank of the Vaga River, which is a tributary of the Severnaia Dvina. The city is 148 km north of the Vel’sk railroad station on the Konosha-Kotlas line. It has two logging and timber distribution establishments, a timber-chemistry establishment, a fur farm, a butter factory, and a food-processing combine. A people’s amateur theater, a museum of local lore, and a sanatorium are located in Shenkursk.