Neva

The River Neva (?????) is a 74 km long Russian river flowing from Lake Ladoga (????????? ????? — Ladozhskoye Ozero) through the Karelian Isthmus (?????????? ???????? — Karelskii Peresheyek) and the city of Saint Petersburg (????? — ????????? — Sankt Peterburg) to the Gulf of Finland (??????? ????? — Finskii Zaliv).

Related Topics:
Km - Russia - Lake Ladoga - Karelian Isthmus - Saint Petersburg - Gulf of Finland

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In the mouth of the river a flood-protection barrier is currently build to avoid flooding of St. Petersburg due to storm-surges in the Gulf of Finland.

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In the Middle Ages the wide and navigable river had a great importance as a link between the Baltics and the Volga portages leading to the Orient. It was a site of the famous Battle of the Neva (1240). During the 16th century the mouth of the Neva River was the site of the Swedish fortress Nyen, and the inlet to the Ladoga - of the Russian fortress Oreshek, later renamed Shlisselburg.

Related Topics:
Middle Ages - Baltic - Volga - Orient - Battle of the Neva - 16th century - Swedish - Nyen - Oreshek - Shlisselburg

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The former was replaced with the Peter and Paul Fortress (??????????????? ???????? - Petropavlovskaya Krepost') in 1703. Standing on the Hare Island (?????? ?????? - Zaichii Ostrov), the fortress is considered the first structure of present-day St Petersburg.

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The Russian Grigori Rasputin was killed when he drowned in this River in 1916.

Related Topics:
Rasputin - 1916

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Neva was the name of a 200-foot-long (61-meter), three-masted sloop-of-war, the first Russian ship to circumnavigate the globe in 1804 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Urey Fedorovich Lisianski.

Related Topics:
Foot - Sloop-of-war - Circumnavigate - 1804 - Lieutenant Commander - Lisianski

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