It is a left tributary of the Volga, joining it near Lyskovo, about 70 km east of Nizhny Novgorod.

[1] After the schism (Raskol) of the 1660s within the Russian Orthodox Church, the densely forested shores of the Kerzhenets became the refuge for many Old Believers.

Their settlements, called Kerzhenets sketes (Russian: Керженские скиты), remained numerous into the 19th century, and the people themselves were known as the Kerzhaks (Кержаки).

The former skete is now the village of Bolshoye Olenevo, located some 24 km south-east from the district capital Semyonov.

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