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	Encyclopedia: Izhora River
		River Izhora, in English also known as River Inger, is the main tributary to River Neva on its run through Ingria in western-most Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland.
		The small town Ust-Izhora ("mouth of Izhora") is situated at the confluence of Izhora and Neva, halfway between Saint Petersburg and Schlisselburg.
		The river is noted as the furthest Swedish forces ever reached between the Viking Age and the Time of Troubles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Izhora-River (161 words)

	Izhora geography
		The ancient settlement of Ust-Izhora (“Mouth of the Izhora”) occupies the high left bank of the Izhora overlooking the conjunction of the two rivers.
		The river Izhora originates from a spring in the village of Skvoritsy, 11 km.
		The average water flow in the Izhora is 0,67 m3/sec, with a range from 0.025 to 2.98 m3/sec, and the mean discharge of its water into the Neva is 4.76 m3/sec.
	fla.esf.edu /research/Nevaproject/site3/izhorageog.html (367 words)

	BSP: Newsletter 99:2:p45a Russia - Along Izhora River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		It is on the bank of the Izhora river, which is a small river in the Baltic basin.
		The land the Izhora river runs through was settled a long time ago and the density of the population is pretty high.
		That is why the Izhora river has to take a large amount of the flows, which are of industrial, agricultural and city-living origin.
	www.b-s-p.org /bspnews/992/992_45a.htm (206 words)

	Ust-Izhora: Historical, political, and ecological connectivity at a river junction
		The Izhorans, a Finno-Ugric tribe that inhabited the area around the Izhora River a millennium ago, were doubtless drawn here for that reason.
		The mouth of the Izhora River is also an important spot along the Neva in terms of the key factors of variability and connectivity.
		The Alexander Nevsky Temple, reflected in the Izhora River.
	enspire.syr.edu /nevaworkshop/Ust-izhoraRM.htm (1271 words)

	Izhora and Ladoga Lands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		On the river Tosna there is a waterfall, which is possible to call as a tiny copy of Niagara one.
		Further to the northwest are Izhora heights, sufficiently dry because of sandstone ground and karst cavities.
		The river Izhora, flowing down from the heights, is known for the battle of 1240 near its fall into Neva, where prince Alexander Yaroslavovich (Nevsky) had beaten the Swedish detachment.
	www.ex-travel.ru /eng/izhora/index2.html (635 words)

	Izhora ecology
		The Kolpinsky District, centered on the town of Kolpino on the right bank of the Izhora, is an industrial suburb of St. Petersburg with a population of about 180,000.
		The largest enterprise in the district is the Izhorsky Factory, which began as a shipbuilding factory in the eighteenth century and has gone on to produce equipment for heavy industry, transportation and agriculture, specializing now in supplying equipment for nuclear plants.
		The Neva, Izhora, and Slavianka rivers and their tributaries flow through the Kolpinsky district, with a total water surface area of about 4,43 km2.
	fla.esf.edu /research/Nevaproject/site3/izhoraecol.html (413 words)

	Information center of the FINNO-UGRIC peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The first mention about Izhora is in the chronicle of XIII century, when their lands were included in territory controlled by Novgorod.
		At first Izhora mentioned under this name in russian chronicles in 1228 and since that time izhortsy often appeared in chronicles with Karelians in discription of the battles with enemies which invaded russian lands from the west.
		The majority of Izhora people in the period between two wars was considered to be bilingual, and after war generations almost don't speak the language of their ancestors.
	www.finugor.komiinform.ru /info.e/narod/izora.html (1375 words)

	NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
		The Izhora settled along the Neva and Izhora rivers and in the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus possibly as early as the end of the 10th c.
		Izhora land on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland and Karelian Isthmus), the Izhoras left their territory.
		The decline in the Izhora population was caused primarily by assimilation.
	www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Izhori (303 words)

	Anthropogenic
		Clearly distinguished in the relief of the territory are the Neva Lowland and the Izhora Plateau (Fig.1).
		The Neva Lowland is adjoined from the south by the Izhora Plateau, its surface being composed of the Ordovician karsted limestones.
		In the Izhora River, potassium content is 3.2 mg/l; and in water of the pond recharged by groundwater, 9.3 mg/l.
	www.scope.ruc.dk /anthropogenic.htm (2791 words)

	Ust-Izhora: Mapping Interdisciplinary Place on the Neva
		The Admiralty Izhora Factories were established on the Izhora during the time of Peter the Great and became very important in building Peter's new navy.
		Among the enterprises built at Kolpino on the Izhora River were a foundry, copper mill, gunshop, rolling mill, and sawmill.
		As Bob Naiman said, rivers integrate watershed systems because they are the lowest point in the system where all its elements congregate; Alexander Nevsky also played an integrating function, bringing together a variety of peoples through diplomacy, military skill, faith, and force of character and forming them into a unified whole against external enemies.
	enspire.syr.edu /nevaworkshop/Ust-Izhora.htm (1394 words)

	City Information
		St.Petersburg is located at the mouth of the Neva River, and across the islands of its delta on the coast of the Finnish Gulf of the Baltic Sea.
		Its nearest suburbs are situated on the lowland adjacent to the Neva River, and along the Gulf.
		Izhora eminence is to the South of the city, and hilly Karelia Isthmus with Vuoksa lake land is located to the North.
	www.rednet.ru /~aver/docs/city.html (5284 words)

	SPB PRESS #124 - Youth group blasts state of local rivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The "Young Petersburg -- Oversees Generation" (YPOG) members described the Izhora river that splits the town as highly polluted and awash with including heavy metals and toxic waste that are dumped in the river everyday.
		The river divides the town into two parts and is a center for resorts and sun-bathing during summer for the town residents.
		The YPOG youths hoped to attract government attention to the dangers of continuing to neglect the Izhora river.
	www.sptimesrussia.com /archive/sppress/124/youth.html (160 words)

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		Territory: Neva River from its head (Ladoga Lake and Nöteborg: Nöteborgs Redden) to its mouth (Gulf of Finland, Nyen: Nyenska Redden) with islands.
		Along the banks of the Neva and channels there are settlements everywhere, especially from the mouth of Izhora River till the head of the future Fontanka River.
		On the cape on the left bank of the Black Stream (now Okhta River) on the place of its confluence into the Neva Nyenskans Fortress is shown, on the right bank of Black Stream is town of Nyen with a German church and a Swedish cathedral.
	www.sweden.spb.ru /maps/22_en.htm (311 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		'''River Izhora''', in English language English also known as '''River Inger''', is the main tributary to River Neva on its run through Ingria in western-most Russia from Lake Ladoga to Gulf of Finland.
		The river is noted as the furthest Lands of Sweden Swedish forces ever reached between the Viking Age and the Time of Troubles.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Izhora.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Izhora.html (169 words)

	Russian Bridges - trevel to Russia to make Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The Finnish Gulf, the Ladoga Lake, the Onega Lake and the surrounding regi-on became the arena of fight between Novgorod, and later the centralized Rus-sian State and the neighboring states, especially Sweden.
		Karelia is often called \"stony lake-forest land\", highlighting the leading elements of landscape, beautiful combinations, created by countless lakes and rivers and the land in-between, covered with forest.
		The pearl of the Reserve is the Kivach Waterfalls on the Suna river.
	www.routes.spb.ru /map.htm (3732 words)

	wiki/Finnic Definition / wiki/Finnic Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Riga is the largest city in the Baltic States and serves as a major cultural, educational, political, financial, commercial and industrial center in the Baltic....
		[click for more]-region and along River DaugavaThe Daugava or Western Dvina (Russian: За́падная Двина́, Belarusan: Дзьвіна́, Latvian: Daugava, German: Düna, Polish Dźwina) is a river rising in the Valdai Hills flowing through Russia and Belarus, to drain into the Gulf of Riga, an arm of the Baltic Sea at Riga, Latvia.
		Narva river, 50 miles (80 km) longIt starts from Lake Peipus (Chudskoye), flowing through E. Estonia, Narva (on the left bank) to Narva bay (Gulf of Finland).
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Finnic (1896 words)

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		In 1235 he participated in a battle at the River Emajogi (in present-day Estonia), where the forces of Yaroslav totally routed the Germans.
		From the Spiritual last-testimony of Sainted Mitrophan is known, that he "was born of pious parents and was raised by them in the incorrupt piety of the Eastern Church, in the Orthodox faith." Until age 40 the saint lived in the world: he was married, had a son Ioann and served as a parish priest.
		The place of pastoral activity of the priest Mikhail was the village of Sidorov, situated at the River Molokhta, a tributary of the Teza flowing to the Klyaz'ma, not far from the city of Shui (now Vladimir district).
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/nov23o.html (5671 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The designation originates from the River Inkere (Izhora) that has probably given its name to the whole country.
		Ingermanland is the descendant of ancient Ingria in the area of the Gulf of Finland, the river basin of Neva and Lake Ladoga that became a Swedish province (in Swedish: Ingermanland) after the battles during the years 1570--1595 and 1610--1617.
		The area of Ingermanland extended 200 kilometres from the River Narva in the west to the River Lava in the east and from north to south 130 kilometres.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/ingrians.shtml (1813 words)

	Old Ladoga: Mediaeval Ladoga: battles, defeats, victories... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Such outliers were situated at the estuaries of the Neva, Volhov and the river Syas.
		In July 1240 the Swedish fleet came into the Neva and to the estuary of the river Izhora.
		The chronographer tells: “They came in the great force…stayed in the Neva in the estuary of Izhora willing to take Ladoga, the river itself and Novgorod as well as the entire Novgorod region.” Prince Alexander came forward with his troop to Ladoga, recruited his troop with Ladoga people and attacked the Swedes.
	www.oldladoga.ru /659.en.html (1511 words)

	Understanding linguloid brachiopods: Obolus and Ungula as examples
		However, precise information on the geology of the type area (provided by Pander) made it possible to determine that the type locality of these species is on the Izhora River (near the abandoned village of Samsonovka).
		Figure 2: Columnar sections through the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds in the East Baltic at the Volkhov and Izhora rivers (see Popov et alii, 1989, for details) showing of distribution of discussed relevant species.
		Figure 6: SEM microphotographs of fractured shells of Ungula and Obolus showing basic differences in microstructure under posterolateral muscle fields of the ventral valve (all abbreviations, are the same as on Figs.
	paleopolis.rediris.es /cg/CG2003_A06_LEP-LEH (5232 words)

	Our Habitat Values - Lebyazhye Natural Reserve Eng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Sewage releases from the village Bolshaya Izhora to Chernaya river.
		Sewage releases from the village Lebyazhye to the Lebyazhya river.
		Releases of organic wastes from the fish-breeding farm to the Kovash river.
	www.greenworld.org.ru /eng/publ/lebsanct.htm (437 words)

	HISPANIDAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		May 16 1703 is deemed to be the date of St. Petersburg foundation.
		This is a square shaped building with an inner yard surrounded by rivers and moats on all sides like a medieval castle Emperor Pavel I was always in terror of a plot, therefore to make his life safer he ordered the palace with many passages, levels, and rooms.
		On November 1 1800 the Palace became the official residence of the Emperor's family, however after his assassination by the plotters the Emperor's family came back to the Winter Palace.
	www.hispanidad.sp.ru /historyspb.htm (2538 words)


		A territory east of Pskov was inhabited by the Chuds who were related to the people of South Estonia, whereas the seacoast east of the River Narva was inhabited by the ancestors of the Izhorians.
		In the beginning the Votians lived side by side with the Slovenes in Northern Ingria Land, from the River Narva up to the River Neva.
		To secure the loyalty of the annexed regions, Russian colonies were set up in the territories near the River Neva.
	www.helsinki.fi /hum/sugl/proj/recfin/heinsoo.html (5359 words)

	St Petersburg History
		In 1240 Duke Alexander Nevsky, Commander of the Novgorod troops defeated the Swedes at the place where the Izhora River falls into the Neva river.
		But in 1716 during the reign of Michael Feodorovich, Russia was forced to give up the Izhora lands to the Swedes as part of a peace treaty signed between the two parties.
		The palace is a square-shaped building with an inner yard sorrounded by rivers and moats on all sides like a medieval castle.
	www.world66.com /europe/russia/stpetersburg/history (1560 words)

	New Directions Initiative - Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Known variously as “the Venice of the North” or “the city on the Neva,” Petersburg is a collection of islands, its landscape dominated by granite embankments and iron and stone bridges that span the broad river and its many canals.
		The embankments and canals, in turn, shape the river and modify its ecology, inhibiting normal riparian processes, ensuring regular flooding, and, indeed, creating a well-defined river out of what was once a swampy delta.
		Is the myth of the river independent of the fact of the river – its water, its flow, its microorganisms, vegetation, pollutants?
	www.mines.edu /newdirections/team2neva.htm (440 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News and Business (Slimy Toxic Sludge, A Silent Spring Surprise) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The pits are surrounded by ditches to hold excess waste, but the ditches themselves border a tributary of Bolshaya Izhora River, which in turn flows into the Neva River - the city's source of drinking water.
		But the burning process is slow, and today over 800,000 cubic meters of liquid waste are ready to overflow, with the surface of fl slime only a few centimeters lower than the top of the walls of the waste pits.
		Vova and Slava, two middle-aged Syas residents who spend most of their time ice fishing on the Syas River, say they sometimes fish in the paper mill's slimy reservoirs.
	www.sptimesrussia.com /archive/times/452/news/spring.htm (1559 words)

	TEMPLE OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In 1240 he won a victory over the Swedes on the Neva River near present Saint Petersburg, thus acquiring his surname, Nevsky (“of the Neva”).
		Aleksandre defeated the Swedes at the juncture of the Izhora and Neva Rivers.
		River Emajogi (in present-day Estonia), where the forces of Yaroslav totally routed the Germans.
	www.sangha.net /messengers/nevsky.htm (3109 words)

	World Arts & Cultural Orientation Programme - The 300th Anniversary of St.Petersburg 's Birth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Here the river Neva discharges its water into the Gulf of Finland.
		The Land of Izhora served Russia as the gateway to the Baltic Sea and it was here that the trading route connecting the West with the East began.
		In the 8th and the 9th centuries the famous road from the Varangian to Greek passed here via the river routes from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
	www.iufs.edu /Cult_orient_prog.html (1086 words)

	On the Applicability of Image Research to the Study of Medieval Hagiographies
		The blocking of the western threat is considered to have climaxed at the beginning of the 1240s, when the Battle of Neva was fought.
		Suddenly there appeared the angel of the Lord, who killed one hundred and eighty-five Assyrian warriors, and when the next morning came their bodies were found there.
		The same occurred after Alexander’s victory when he defeated the king: on the other shore of the river Izhora, which Alexander’s troops did not reach, there were found numerous enemy who were killed by the angel of the Lord.”
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn9514266331/html/t1276.html (7302 words)

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