Led (river)

The Led (Ледь) is a river in Plesetsky and Shenkursky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Vaga. It is 184 km long, and the area of its basin is 2690 km2. Its main tributary is the Tarnya (right).

The source of the Led is Lake Ledmozero, in the south of Plesetsky District. The river flows to the north-west through the swamps and enters Shenkursky District. The valley of the Led is populated downstream from the village of Paskandskaya, where it also turns south-east. Eventually, it turns north-west again and empties into the Vaga close to the village of Zhuravlyovskaya.

The Led, as is characteristic of the rivers in the Russian North, flows through coniferous forests (taiga), and villages in the valley are grouped in the openings of the forest close to each other. These groups can be separated by relatively large stretches of the river course. Downstream from the village of Zeleninskaya in Shenkursky District, where the Led enters the valley of the Vaga, the valley is open and almost continuously covered by villages.

The Led was used for timber rafting.