The (Нева́) is a 74-
Km -long
Russian river flowing from
Lake Ladoga (Ладожское Озеро — Ladozhskoye Ozero) through the
Karelian Isthmus (Карельский Перешеек — Karelskii Peresheyek) and the city of
Saint Petersburg (Санкт Петербург — Sankt Peterburg) to the
Gulf Of Finland (Финский Залив — Finskii Zaliv).
In the mouth of the river a flood-protection barrier is currently being built to avoid flooding of St. Petersburg due to storm-surges in the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length, the Neva is in terms of discharge one of the major rivers of Europe.
In the
Middle Ages the wide and navigable river had
Great Importance as a link between the
Baltic s 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 was the site of the
Swedish fortress
Nyen , and the inlet to the Ladoga of the Russian fortress
Oreshek , later renamed
Shlisselburg . The former was replaced with the
Peter And Paul Fortress (Петропавловская Крепость — Petropavlovskaya Krepost') in 1703. Standing on the Hare Island (Заячий Остров — Zayachii Ostrov), the fortress is considered the first structure of present-day St Petersburg.
Grigori Rasputin drowned in the Neva in
1916 .
''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 . The Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova included the Neva in many of her poems.
The Neva is the most northwestern part of the
Volga-Baltic Waterway , the connection between the
Volga River ,
Lake Onega ,
Lake Ladoga , and the
Baltic Sea . This waterway is navigable for even the largest inland vessels, and it is an important part of the inland shipping connection between St. Petersburg and
Moscow . Many passenger vessels share this waterway with large transport ships.
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- Weblog with pictures of the Neva
