Rurik also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or invitation by local people of the city of Novgorod ( which means " new city ") on the Volkhov River.

* Rurikovo Gorodishche-situated on an island on the Volkhov River near Veliky Novgorod, Russia

Reputed burial mound for Oleg of Novgorod ; Volkhov River near Old Ladoga.

Staraya Ladoga (), or the Aldeigjuborg of Norse sagas, is a village ( selo ) in the Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, 8 km north of the town of Volkhov.

The heart of Staraya Ladoga is an old fortress where the Yelena River flows into the Volkhov River.

In earlier times, it was a strategic site because it was the only possible harbour for sea-vessels that could not navigate through the Volkhov River.

Image: VolkhovRiverMounds. jpg | 8th to 10th century Viking burial mounds along the Volkhov River near Staraya Ladoga.

Estonia's new eastern border was planned to be extent to the Leningrad-Novgorod line, with Lake Ilmen and Volkhov River forming the new eastern border of the Baltic country, while Latvia was to reach the Velikiye Luki region.

It lay on the historical trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, which followed the Volkhov upstream to Lake Ilmen and thence followed the course of the Lovat before eventually reaching the Dnieper River.

Novgorod oblast was an area of long and fierce battles, such as, for example, the Demyansk Pocket, or the Leningrad – Novgorod Offensive in 1944, when the Soviet troops crossed the Volkhov River.

The power industry is represented by low-and medium-power thermal and hydroelectric power plants, including a hydroelectric power plant on the Volkhov River.

The importance of waterways has considerably diminished since those days, but Lake Ilmen, the Volkhov River, and lower courses of main tributaries of lake Ilmen-the Lovat, the Msta, the Polist, and the Shelon, as well as Lake Seliger, remain navigable.

Staraya Ladoga, the first capital of legendary Rurik, founded in the 8th-9th century, is situated in the east of the oblast, on the River Volkhov.

The meaning of the word Garðaríki is usually interpreted as " the kingdom of cities ", or " the realm of towns ", which probably referred to a chain of Norse forts along the Volkhov River, starting with Lyubsha and Ladoga.

In 1375, enraged citizens of Novgorod threw five heretics from the bridge into the Volkhov River.

The Volkhov River divided the Republic of Novgorod into two halves.

The Ilmen Slavs () was the northernmost tribe of the Early East Slavs, which inhabited the shores of the Lake Ilmen and the basin of the rivers of Volkhov, Lovat, Msta, and the upper stream of the Mologa River in the 8th to 10th centuries.

The upstream part of the Volkhov is connected to the Msta River by the Siversov Canal bypassing Lake Ilmen.

A View at the Volkhov River, 1963, by Arseny Semionov

Image: Bazhenov-Vsevolod-Spring-on Volkhov-River-nov74bw. jpg | Spring on the Volkhov River, 1981, by Vsevolod Bazhenov

A View at the Volkhov River, 1999, by Simon Kozhin

* Volkhov River, a river in north-western Russia

In the Middle Ages, the lake formed a vital part of the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks, with the Norse emporium at Staraya Ladoga defending the mouth of the Volkhov since the 8th century.

In 1943 the Road of Life was replaced by the Road of Victory – a railway, laid on the narrow path beaten out by German troops from Leningrad to Volkhov.

The level of water is regulated by the dam of the Volkhov hydroelectric plant ( the first Soviet regional hydroelectric dam opened on December 19, 1926 in the framework of the GOELRO plan ) situated 25 km upstream from the mouth of the river.

There was another outpost at Kholopy Gorodok, 13 km north of present-day Velikiy Novgorod, or rather Holmgard, which was founded near the point where the Volkhov flows from Lake Ilmen.

For this purpose, the pipeline from the Shtokman field to the Murmansk Oblast and further via Kola peninsula to Volkhov in the Leningrad Oblast will be built.

The name of the town originates from the Kirisha River ( previously Kiresha ), a tributary of the Volkhov River.

For the next few weeks the Legion was engaged in operations to prevent the Soviets from establishing a bridgehead on the west bank of the Volkhov.

In the west and the south, it is separated from the river basin of the Volkhov, in the north it is separated from the river basin of the Svir, and in the east it is separated from the river basin of the Volga.

During the late Vendel Age and the early Viking Age, the Syas River was popular as an alternative route to the Volkhov for penetrating from the Baltic Sea through portages to the Volga River.

The monastery is situated on the right bank of the Volkhov River some 10 km north northeast of Velikiy Novgorod, in the village of Khutyn, whose name is perhaps derived from the Russian " khudoi " ( худой ) meaning " ill, bad, or poor ," possibly suggesting that the village or the region around it was an evil place, or a poor area among the marshes and near the river.

It was in charge of a 50 km section of the front north and south of Novgorod, along the banks of the Volkhov river and Lake Ilmen.

The only outflow of the lake is the Volkhov, a major tributary of Lake Ladoga.

It was only in mid-December, after troops of the Volkhov front recaptured Tikhvin, that construction of a railroad directly connecting the western shore of Lake Ladoga to Leningrad was possible.

Together with the Volkhov Front, the Leningrad Front would break the blockade of the city by eliminating the German positions south of Ladoga Lake, where only separated the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts.

The Volkhov flows out of Lake Ilmen north into Lake Ladoga, the largest lake of Europe.

It is drained through a single outlet, the Volkhov, into Lake Ladoga, and subsequently via the Neva into the Gulf of Finland.

The region thus is divided between the drainage basins of the Caspian Sea ( the Volga ), the Black Sea ( the Dnieper ), and the Baltic Sea ( the Msta and the Lovat via the Volkhov, the Syas via Lake Ladoga and the Neva, and the Daugava ).

Then it followed the Volkhov River, upstream past the towns of Staraya Ladoga and Velikiy Novgorod, crossed Lake Ilmen, and up the Lovat River, the Kunya River and possibly the Seryozha River.

Sorted by the discharge, the biggest rivers of the oblast are the Volkhov, the Mologa, the Msta, the Lovat, the Syas, and the Shelon.