page_title: Velikoustyugsky District
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Velikoustyugsky District / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Cliff of alternating layers of mudstone and marl, at Opoki, near Poldarsa on the Sukhona river in the Vologda oblast of Russia. The cliff is about 60 metres high and the rocks are of late Permian age. Русский: Геологические обнажение в Опоках (Вологодская область)
context_page_description: Velikoustyugsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Kotlassky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Luzsky District of Kirov Oblast in the east, Podosinovsky District of Kirov Oblast in the southeast, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District in the south, Nyuksensky District in the west, and with Ustyansky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast in the northwest. The area of the district is 7,700 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Veliky Ustyug. Population: 18,087; 22,210; 26,146.
context_section_description: In Veliky Ustyug, the Sukhona and Yug Rivers form the Northern Dvina, one of the biggest rivers in Europe. Upstream from the town of Kotlas, and especially within the limits of the district, the Northern Dvina is sometimes referred to as the Little Northern Dvina. The Sukhona, the Yug, and the Northern Dvina split the district into three roughly equal areas. The biggest tributary of the Yug within the district is the Luza River. Minor areas in the west of the district lie in the basin of the Kizema River, itself in the basin of the Vaga. Some areas in the north of the district are in the basin of the Ustya River, a tributary of the Vaga. The whole district belongs to the basin of the Northern Dvina.
  Almost the whole of the district is covered by coniferous forests (taiga). The exception are the meadows in the floodplains.
caption: The banks of the Sukhona River in the village of Porog
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