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The Neva (, ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast ( historical region of Ingria ) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland.
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Nyenschantz (,,, although generally known in the 17th century as Канцы ) was a Swedish fortress built in 1611 at the mouth of the Neva river in Swedish Ingria on the site of the present day St. Petersburg in Russia.
The Izhora (, ), also known as Inger River, is a left tributary of the Neva River on its run through Ingria in northwestern Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland.
The Battle of the Neva (, Nevskaya bitva, ) was fought between the Novgorod Republic and Swedish armies on the Neva River, near the settlement of Ust-Izhora, on July 15, 1240.
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At the semi-enclosed bays with major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and head of Bothnian gulf with close mouths of Lule, Tornio and Kemi, the salinity is considerably lower.
The length ( from the Hanko Peninsula to Saint Petersburg ) is and the width varies from near the entrance to on the meridian of the island Moshnyi ; in the Neva Bay, it decreases to.
The depth of the Neva Bay is less than ; therefore, a channel was dug at the bottom for safe navigation.
The Neva is the only river flowing from Lake Ladoga.
It is a site of numerous major historical events, including the Battle of the Neva in 1240 which gave Alexander Nevsky his name, the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, and the Siege of Leningrad by the German army during World War II.
The valley of Neva is formed by glacial and post-glacial sediments and it did not change much over the past 2500 years.
The delta of Neva was formed at that time, which is actually pseudodelta, as it was formed not by accumulation of river material but by plunging into the past sediments.
In the area of Neva basin, rainfall greatly exceeds evaporation ; the latter accounts for only 37. 7 % of the water consumption from Neva and the remaining 62. 3 % is water runoff.
Because of the uniform water flow from Lake Ladoga to Neva over the whole year, there is almost no floods and corresponding water rise in the spring.
Of the total ice volume of Lake Ladoga ( 10. 6 km³ ) only less than 5 % is brought to Neva.
This is the only way for the Santa Fe traffic to travel north-west after removing the tracks to Neva.
Neva is a town in Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States.
The Karelian Isthmus () is the approximately 45 – 110 km wide stretch of land, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva ( between 61 ° 21 ’ N, 59 ° 46 ’ N and 27 ° 42 ’ E, 31 ° 08 ’ E ).
If the Karelian Isthmus is defined as the entire territory of present-day Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast to the north of the Neva, the isthmus ' area covers about 15, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Another identification states that Neva is seated on the left and the Indian next to Smith is White Wolf ( Cheyenne ).
The town is located on the Neva Lowland, on the left bank of the river Neva.
* Prince Alexander Yaroslavich of Novgorod was called Alexander Nevsky for his victory in the Battle of Neva ( for which existence there is no support other than in Russian sources ).
The latter is constructed on drained marshlands at the mouth of the Neva river.
Seiche-induced flooding is common along the Neva river in the autumn.
In the northeast of the oblast, in Vologodsky district, there is a point which is a triple divide of the river basins of the Neva ( Baltic Sea ), the Volga ( Caspian Sea ), and the Onega ( White Sea ), and thus the basins of the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the endorheic basins of the interior of Eurasia.
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It extends between Finland ( to the north ) and Estonia ( to the south ) all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it.
The isolation threshold should be at Heinjoki to the east of Vyborg, where the Baltic Sea and Ladoga were connected by a strait or a river outlet at least until the formation of the River Neva, and possibly even much later, until 12th century AD or so.
There are at least three versions of the origin of the name Neva: from the ancient Finnish name of Lake Ladoga ( meaning sea ), from the ( short from ) meaning swamp, or from the – new river.
According to some newer data, it happened at 1410 – 1250 BC making the Neva a rather young river.
Relations were quiet between Sweden and Novgorod until 1348, when Magnus led a crusade against Novgorod, marching up the Neva, forcibly converting the tribes along that river, and briefly capturing the fortress of Orekhov for a second time.
Some attempted to regroup on the frozen surface of the river Neva, to the north.
The boat carried 14 passengers on Neva river against the current.
In 1814 he proposed to Tsar Alexander I of Russia a plan to build a tunnel under the river Neva in St Petersburg.
Hostilities continued in 1300 when a Swedish force attacked the mouth of the river Neva and built a fort near the current location of Saint Petersburg.
The southwestern shore of Lake Onega, one of the biggest freshwater lakes in Europe, belongs to Vologda Oblast, and the tributaries of Lake Onega, the biggest of which are the Vytegra River and the Andoma River, belong to the river basin of the Neva and thus drain to the Baltic Sea.
Volga – Baltic Waterway, first constructed in the 19th century as the Mariinsk Canal System and then reconstructed in the 20th century, connects the river basins of the Volga and the Neva via the Sheksna, Lake Beloye, the Kovzha, and the Vytegra, and is one of the main waterways in European Russia.
" Nyen " was properly Swedish for the Neva river, and officially the fortress was always known as Nyenskans, even though the concepts were in flux in common parlance.
On May 1, 1703, during the Ingrian campaign of the Great Northern War, the fortress of Nyenskans was taken by Peter the Great and renamed Schlotburg ( Shlotburg ), " Neck-town ", after the long narrow section of the Neva river where it was located ( German " Schlot " corresponds to "( funnel ) neck, narrows, chimney ").
This fortress stood in contrast to Schlüsselburg, " Key-town " ( known as " Nöteborg " in Swedish ), at the other end of the Neva river.
After Peter the Great connected the Svir with the Neva River by the Ladoga Canal, the river has been part of the Volga-Baltic Waterway.
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Small numbers can still be found in the Western part of Ingria, between the Narva and Neva rivers in northwestern Russia.
The Pola provides the main drain from the northwestern slope of the Valdai Hills to the river basin of the Neva.
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It was constructed in 1639 to provide water power for mills. In Russia, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, a nationwide canal system connecting the Baltic and Caspian seas via the Neva and Volga rivers, was opened in 1718.
It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor Nicholas I of Russia on the Neva River.
* July 15 – Battle of the Neva: Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes, saving Russia from a full-scale enemy invasion from the North.
A project is currently being discussed in Russia to destroy the rapids at Losevo and turn the River Burnaya, Lake Sukhodolskoye and lower portions of Vuoksi into a navigable canal, which would connect Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland and allow oil tankers to bypass River Neva and the city of Saint Petersburg.
According to the date of establishment, the Neva Yacht Club, founded in 1718 in Russia, is the oldest yacht club.
Shlisselburg (; ; ) is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg.
Ust-Izhora () is a municipal settlement in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Izhora and Neva Rivers, and is roughly equidistant to Saint Petersburg and Schlisselburg, Russia, from both the Gulf of Finland in the west and Lake Ladoga in the northeast.
* Cross, Anthony, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth-Century Russia, Cambridge University Press ( 2007 ) Retrieved Jan 24 2010
Despite its relatively small size, Volkhov has played a large role in Russian history and economy: in recognition of that, a figure representing the Volkhov appears among the allegorical monuments to the four major rivers of Russia ( the others are: Volga, Dnieper and Neva ) on the rostral columns in the ensemble of the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns.
Fontanka () is a left branch of the river Neva, which flows through the whole of Central Saint Petersburg, Russia.
** The Palace Embankment () along the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia
** The English Embankment (; Angliyskaya Naberezhnaya ) along the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg supposing that that was the site of the Neva Battle in 1240 when Alexander Nevsky, a prince, defeated the Swedes ; however, the battle actually took place about 12 miles away from that site.
Portraits of first ministers of Imperial Russia in the Neva magazine.
Russia soon ordered more submarines ( of the same basic design ) and they were built under contract with the Holland Company by the Neva Shipbuilding Company located in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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