Pechenzhitsa () is a river in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is part of the Northern Dvina basin and is a right tributary of Sukhona river and flows through the Babushkinsky and Totemsky Districts of the oblast into Sukhona 298km from its mouth. Its largest tributary is Mikhalitsa.Река Печеньжица, Государственный водный реестр России [State Water Registry of Russia]
The name is the diminutive of the toponym (not to be confused with Pechenga, ) and is part of the Finnic substrate of the toponymy of Northern Russia.Матвеев А. К., Субстратная топонимия Русского Севера. Часть I, Екатеринбург: Изд-во Урал. ун-та, 2001 p. 1111
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