Yemtsa (Russian: Е́мца) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Plesetsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located 42 kilometers (26 mi) north of Plesetsk and 172 kilometers (107 mi) south of Arkhangelsk.

During the Russian Civil War in 1918, heavy battles were fought between the Red Army and the British troops around Yemtsa.

Yemtsa had work settlement status until it was demoted to a rural locality in February 2013.

[1] There is a railway station in Yemtsa situated on the Plesetskaya–Obozerskaya line of the railroad connecting Moscow with Arkhangelsk.

This is the historic trading route which connected Kargopol with Arkhangelsk before the railroad was built, and long stretches of this road are still unpaved.