Wonder of nature Kokshamar y Completed pupil of the 6 th class Ivanov Vadim
Pinocchio, beter known to Russian-Speaking readers (thanks to Alexei Tolstoy) as Pinocchio,was made from a pinewood.Apparently Pinocchio shoots Karabas-Barabas, whose beard sticks to the resionous trunk of this tree as a result.Avicenna used decoctions from the pine bark as a medicine.
The leght of the river is 294 km,the basin area is 6330 km sguare. The spit is 4.5 km to the North- East from the village of Kokshaga in the Kiknir district of the Kirov region. The general direction of the current is the Southern one. Flows through the coniferous (in the upper reaches) and mixed forests on the territory of Mari El fiows through the reserve « Bolshaya Kokshaga».It flows into the Kuibyshev Reservior along the left (northern) shore near the western edge of the village of Kokshaysk (1925 km from the mouth of the Volga and 5 km to the North-East from the Mariinskii Posad ).