Konosha (Russian: Ко́ноша) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Konoshsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Konosha River, 400 kilometers (250 mi) south of Arkhangelsk.

The name of the river contains two element: -sha, which means "water" in the relevant Finnic languages, and -kon, which unclear etymology.

[11] There are paved roads in the district, connecting Konosha with Velsk in the east and Nyandoma in the north.

[12] In 1964-1965, the future literature Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky was exiled to the village of Norinskaya (which is now a part of Konoshskoye Urban Settlement) after being charged with social parasitism and convicted to eighteen months of hard labor.

In the exile, Brodsky chopped wood and studied Russian and American literature.