The Shozma is a river in Nyandomsky District

Nyandomsky District

Nyandomsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Nyandomsky Municipal District...

 of Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea....

 in Russia

Russia

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. It is a left tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

 of the Mosha River

Mosha River

The Mosha is a river in Plesetsky and Nyandomsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a right tributary of the Onega River. It is long, and the area of its basin . The main tributaries of the Mosha are Iksa River , Lim River , Lepsha River , and Lelma River...

. It is 54 kilometres (33.6 mi) long.

The river flows out of Lake Big Shozhma , crosses the Arkhangelsk-Moscow railway near the village of Shipakhovsky and crosses the village, then flows to the north up to village of Shozhma

Shozhma

Shozhma is a village in Russia in Arkhangelsk Oblast. It was founded as a railway station during the building of the railway from Vologda to Arkhangelsk at the end of 19th century...

, which is on the left bank, there it turns to the east. Shozhma River flows in the general direction of the north-east. The another settlement on the river banks was the village of Kondratovskaya (with historical name the "Village of Shozhma" in the middle course of the river. Kondratovskaya is now deserted.