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Svir River




  Caption Banks of the Svir River
  Origin Lake Onega
  Mouth Lake Ladoga
  Basin Countries Russia
  Length 224 km (139 mi)
  Elevation 32 m (105 ft)
  Discharge 790 m&sup3/s (27,903 ft&sup3/s)
  Watershed 83,200 km&sup2 (32,124 mi&sup2)


The river Svir (''Свирь'', Finnish: ''Syväri'') connects Lake Onega with Lake Ladoga in Russia , thus connecting the two largest lakes of Europe, and is considered the southern border of East Karelia . The river flows past the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery , which used to house one of the most infamous Gulag s.