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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Russia: The Russian Federation (, transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija), or Russia (Russian: ???????, transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija), is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Europe and Asia. With an area of 17,075,400 km? (6,595,600 mi?), it is the largest coun...

Lake Ladoga: Lake Ladoga (Russian: ????????? ????? (Ladozhskoye Ozero), Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, near the border with Finland....

Neva related Images and Photos (experimental)

Driving on the Neva 1854	View of the Neva the Harbour and the Exchange at St. Petersburg	Peter I on the Banks of the River Neva from the Poem The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin	The Winter Palace from the River Neva
When His Dogs are Trapped in a Flood of the River Neva