Mologa River

Mologa River (Молога)
The lower course of the Mologa
Country	Russia
Source
- location	Valdai Hills
Mouth	Rybinsk Reservoir (Volga)
- elevation	101 m (331 ft)
- coordinates	58°52′59″N 37°4′48″E / 58.88306°N 37.08000°E / 58.88306; 37.08000Coordinates: 58°52′59″N 37°4′48″E / 58.88306°N 37.08000°E / 58.88306; 37.08000
Length	456 km (283 mi)
Basin	29,700 km2 (11,467 sq mi)
Discharge
- average	237 m3/s (8,370 cu ft/s)

The Mologa (Russian: Молога) is a river in Maksatikhinsky, Bezhetsky, Lesnoy, and Sandovsky Districts of Tver Oblast, Pestovsky District in Novgorod Oblast, and Ustyuzhensky and Cherepovetsky Districts in Vologda Oblast Russia. It is a left tributary of the Volga River. The lower course of the Mologa has been turned into the Rybinsk Reservoir. It is 456 kilometres (283 mi) long, and the area of its basin 29,700 square kilometres (11,500 sq mi). The principal tributaries of the Mologa are the Osen (right), the Volchina (left), the Kobozha (left), the Chagodoshcha (left) and the Sit (right, now it is a tributary of the Rybinsk Reservoir).

The towns of Bezhetsk, Pestovo, and Ustyuzhna, and the urban-type settlement of Maksatikha are on the banks of the Mologa River. A historic town of Mologa used to stand at the confluence of the Mologa river with the Volga, but it was submerged under water as the Rybinsk Reservoir was filled between 1939 and 1947. The town of Vesyegonsk was also previously on the banks of the Mologa, however, it was relocated when the Rybinsk Reservoir was filled, and is on the banks of the reservoir.