It is located along the shores of the Vytegra River on Volga-Baltic Waterway 320 kilometers (200 mi) northwest of Vologda. Vytegra is a road junction where a partially paved road connecting to Podporozhye in Leningrad Oblast branches off from the highway connecting Vologda with Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia via Lipin Bor and Pudozh. There is bus traffic originating from Vytegra
