Shenkursk (Russian: Шенку́рск) is a town and the administrative center of Shenkursky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Vaga River.

Ivan the Terrible referred to this location as the town of Vaga and included it into his oprichnina.

Tsar Feodor I made a grant of Shenkursk to his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, who bequeathed it to his future son-in-law, Johan of Schleswig-Holstein, who died shortly after arriving to Russia.

In the autumn of 1918, about six thousand British and American troops advanced south of Shenkursk.

The town contains twenty-one objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local importance.