River Kovja
river Kovzha, Arkhangelsk region
Description:
The river Kovzha in the upper reaches goes from the northern part to the southern, then turns steeply to the north side and then goes in the direction of the north-west. Connects to Lake Lache.
The largest tributaries of the river are Orinoshny, Tomba, Merega and Lomovaya.
In 1978, the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, together with researchers from the northern expedition, found in the right part of the bank of the Kovzha River, on the hills covered with wetlands, the Sukhoi Parking lot. The cultural layers of this site date from the Mesolithic era, to the beginning of the Bronze Age. The discovered parking lot was enrolled in the archaeological culture of Veretje.