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	NOVGOROD - Online Information article about NOVGOROD
		White Lake) and Vozhe are the largest of more than 3000.
		VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus)
		principal streams in the basin of Lake Ilmen.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NOVGOROD.html (927 words)

	Lake - ninemsn Encarta
		Lakes are distinguished from bodies of water such as bays and gulfs, and some seas, that have an interchange with the ocean and are subject to tides.
		Lake basins are formed by many geological processes, such as buckling of stratified rock into large folds, displacement of large masses of rock by faults, and blocking of valleys by landslides.
		Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater lake in the world, with a maximum depth of 1,637 m (5,371 ft).
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551773/Lake.html (357 words)

	Lake Ladoga (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 15th lake by area in the world.
		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.
		The ancient Valaam Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam, the largest in Lake Ladoga, abandoned between 1611–1715, magnificently restored in the 18th century, and evacuated to Finland during the Winter War in 1940.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Laatokka.htm (562 words)

	Novgorod, Russia (Capital) - LoveToKnow 1911
		That situated on a low terrace close by Lake Ilmen was soon abandoned, and Novgorod or "New-town" (in contradistinction to the Scandinavian Aldegjeborg or Ladoga) was founded by Scandinavian sea-rovers as Holmgard on another terrace which extended a mile lower on both banks of the river.
		Even in the 9th century the new city on the Volkhov exercised a kind of supremacy over the other towns of the lake region, when its inhabitants in 862 invited the Varangians, under the leadership of Rurik, to the defence of the Russian towns of the north.
		It is said that the population of Novgorod in the 14th century reached 400,000, and that the pestilences of 1467, 1508 and 1533 carried off no fewer than 134,000 persons.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Novgorod,_Russia_(Capital) (1300 words)

	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of lake (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Note: Lakes are for the most part of fresh water; the salt lakes, like the Great Salt Lake of Utah, have usually no outlet to the ocean.
		Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore.
		{Lake poets}, {Lake school}, a collective name originally applied in contempt, but now in honor, to Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, who lived in the lake country of Cumberland, England, Lamb and a few others were classed with these by hostile critics.
	www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/default.asp?define=lake (439 words)

	Ladoga, Lake - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Located on the heavily glaciated Baltic Shield, the lake has shores that are low and marshy in the south, rocky and indented in the north.
		Chief among the many rivers that feed the lake are the Svir, descending from Lake Onega; the Vuoska, which forms the outlet of the Saimaa lake system of Finland; and the Volkhov, coming from Lake Ilmen.
		Until the Finnish-Russian War of 1939-40, the northern part of the lake belonged to Finland; cession of the Finnish shore to the USSR was confirmed by the peace treaty of 1947.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ladoga-l1.html (463 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ilmen
		Ilmen, shallow lake, varying in size from c.300 to c.800 sq mi (780-2,070 sq km), NW European Russia.
		The region forms the watershed of the upper Volga, the Western Dvina, and the Dnieper rivers and also of the rivers that flow into Lake Ilmen.
		The largest lake in Europe, it is c.130 mi (210 km) long and c.80 mi (130 km) wide and has a maximum depth of 738 ft (225 m).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ilmen (392 words)

	The World According To Google - satellite pictures of the most interesting places on the World, satellite maps » ...
		Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро (Ladozhskoye Ozero), Finnish: Laatokka) is a freshwater lake located in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, near the border with Finland.
		With an area of 17,700 km² (approximately 6,800 square miles), it is the largest lake in Europe and the 15th by area in the world.
		The ancient Valaam Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam (Finnish: Valamo), the largest in Lake Ladoga, abandoned between 1611–1715, magnificently restored in the 18th century, and evacuated to Finland during the Winter War in 1940.
	maps.pomocnik.com /Lake-Ladoga-Russia (627 words)

	Island-Hopping at Tranquil Lake Seliger
		The air is fresh and the lake is surrounded by kilometer after kilometer of pine and birch forests.
		Lake Seliger has plenty to offer those in search of a more relaxing time, too, from spectacular sunsets to picturesque lakeside villages and fishermen's boats docked in small harbors.
		Lake Seliger is located in the Valdai Hills, a region composed of a series of glacial moraines that rise to 340 meters.
	www.moscowtimes.ru /stories/2002/08/09/109.html (1417 words)

	Lake Ladoga — FactMonster.com
		of 1939–40, the northern part of the lake belonged to Finland; cession of the Finnish shore to the USSR was confirmed by the peace treaty of 1947.
		Because of the difficulties of navigation, the southern shore of Lake Ladoga is paralleled by the
		Lake Onega - Onega, Lake, Finnish Aäninen, Rus.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0828559.html (382 words)

	WayToRussia.Net Guide to Russia / General Info about Novgorod region: facts, highlights of the region, geology, lakes & ...
		The shores of this lake are low and flat, the lands next to the lake are swamps.
		Because the bottom of Ilmen lake is covered with silt, and because of its shallowness, the water is muddy (the winds are mixing the water) and warm.
		Ilmen lake and the beginning of Volkhov river are ok for swimming.
	www.waytorussia.net /CentralRussia/Novgorod/Info.html (1006 words)

	The Partisan War
		In the central sector Partisan groups carried out attacks in the area of the Pripyat Marshes and in the marshy forests to the south of Lake Ilmen and the Valdai Hills.
		The heaviest pressure remained on the northern wing of the Russian attack, in the area between Lake Ilmen and Lake Peipus, where the number of rail demolitions steadily increased.
		This operation was followed almost immediately by 'Fruhlingsfest', and involved the units which had executed 'Regenschauer', remaining in place along the lakes as a blocking force, joined in the north and west by elements of the 16th Army.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /thepartisanwar.htm (5014 words)

	Digital photo. Russia: Novgorod.
		The "villages" which result are, of course, artificial creations, since they never existed in the given location with the same grouping of buildings that one now sees.
		The main lake of the Novgorod region is Ilmen lake, that could've been the biggest lake in Europe, if it wasn't so shallow - it's only from 2.5 to 10 meters deep.
		The Volkhov river goes from Ilmen lake to the direction of Novgorod.
	photocity.ru /en/novgorod.php (168 words)

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		It is under the dominion of the Muscovite.1 Russ, formerly called Ancient Russia, is an ancient little town under the government of Novogorod, from which it is twelve miles distant, and thirteen from lake Ilmen.
		It has an artificial river, which the townspeople have formed, in a large ditch like a lake, and from it each man has water brought down by channels to his own house, and prepares salt.
		The city of Plescow is situated on the lake from which the river of the same name emerges.
	memory.loc.gov /service/ndlpcoop/mtfxtx/txg/g340002190b/0046.txt (351 words)

	Fairy tales in english: Sadko, russian tale
		Being forced into idleness is tremendously wearing, so the bard went once again to the lovely shores of Lake Ilmen, sat upon the rocks by the blue waters, and began to sing.
		On the third morning the door remained undarkened by anyone inviting Sadko to play at feasting, and so for the third time he went again to the stones on the shore of Lake Ilmen and sat in the warm sun and played his gusli while he sang sweet songs.
		Say to them: 'I, Sadko the Bard, know that dwelling in Lake Ilmen are fish with fins of pure gold!" Those rich (and ignorant) merchants of Novgorod will delight t ridiculing your words, and they will contradict you and deny that such fish are in Lake Ilmen.
	www.cozy-corner.com /book/sadko_russian_fairy_tale.htm (1562 words)

	Saint Petersburg 2007
		Actually it’s not a river at all; it’s a strait between the Ladoga Lake and the Baltic Sea.
		The Neva delta includes the Ladoga, Onega, Saima, and Ilmen lakes as well as the Svir, Volkhov, and Vuoksa rivers.
		There is only one comparable lake-system in the world — the Great Lakes in the North of America.
	www.icold-spb2007.org /petersburg/en (911 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lake Ilmen": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Soviet Union, Red Army, Lake Ladoga, Black Sea, East Prussia, Gulf of Finland, Adolf Hitler, Knight's Cross, Sixteenth Army, Third Reich, Western Europe, North Africa, Communist Party, North Sea, Operation Barbarossa, Lake Peipus, Peter the Great, Soviet Russia, Battle of Britain, Baltic Sea, Karelian Isthmus, Sixth Army, Nazi Germany, Iron Cross, Army Group North
		Moreover, by establishing themselves in the vicinity of Lake Ilmen the German units would be in a favorable position for contin- uing their advance on Leningrad.
		At Lake Ilmen she would catapult herself naked five times right into the water." Delight was all over Dasha's face.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lake-Ilmen (622 words)

	Untitled Document
		INTRODUCTION: The hero of this poem, whose adventure with the fish of Lake Ilmen is suggestive of the Arabian Nights, and whose later experience with the Tzar Morskoi recalls Jonah, or Arion in Greek mythology, is not a purely imaginary being.
		The waves rose in the lake, the water was clouded with sand, and Sadko feared to sit there: great terror overcame him, and he returned to Novgorod.
		And the third day, being still unbidden of any man, he sat on the blue burning stone, and playe4 upon his harp of maple-wood, and the waves rose in the lake, and the water was troubled with sand.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Sadko.html (2714 words)

	GIS - projects
		Research of zone and azonal appropriateness of change of thermal and water lake regime, and, also, estimation of lake water resources in global, national and regional scales.
		Morphometrical - 1) an origin of a lake basin (glacial, tectonic, etc.); 2) type of lake (presence of outflow\ closed basin) and character of level fluctuations (regulated\unregulated); 3) average and maximal depths, the area, volume, length and irregularity of a coastal line; 4) the area of a watershed and of a specific watershed;
		Research of zone and azonal appropriateness of change of thermal and water regimes of lakes, and, also, estimation of lake water resources of Northwest Russia in global, national and regional scales.
	limno.org.ru /eng/gis.htm (1237 words)

	WINGS Birding Tours to Karelia: Eastern Finland and Western Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We travel via the magnificent city of St. Petersburg before reaching this vast shallow lake, where numerous small rivers and streams create a maze of small deltas, reedbeds, sandbanks and flooded meadows- a superb mix of habitats that attracts a superb mix of birds.
		Several species reach the western edge of their range at Lake Ilmen and this is one reason the area is so attractive to western birdwatchers.
		These can be very common around Lake Ilmen, their calls at times almost drowning out the sound of the local passerines.
	wingsbirds.com /tours/view/52 (1091 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Novgorod: Climate and Locale) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was located in the watery landscape at the mouth of Lake Ilmen.
		It is in western Russia just north of Lake Ilmen.
		Novgorod is located on the river Volkhov, in a lake district.
	members.aol.com /ingigerthr/Novgorod_Climate_and_Locale.html (202 words)

	Spring in Novgorod The Great - Ilmen Lake - Worldisround photo
		Sightseeing in Russia picture - Lake Ilmen is the fifth largest lakes in Europe.
		The lake will not exist after 15.000 years.
		Lake Ilmen is the fifth largest lakes in Europe.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/164444/photo3.html (173 words)

	WayToRussia.Net Guide to Russia / Novgorod Entertainment: Swimming, Beaches, Going Out, Nightlife.
		That's the place where the river Volkhov starts from a large lake Il'men (60 by 40 kilometers), just 5 kilometers south of Novgorod.
		Can be quite crowdy at the daytime, mostly children and teenagers, but the water is very warm (because the lake Ilmen isn't deep = maximum 4 meters), and it's further from the city, so it's clean.
		You can take a ferry along Volkhov river to Ilmen lake just on the left of the pedestrian bridge over Volkhov river, in front of the Kremlin.
	www.waytorussia.net /CentralRussia/Novgorod/Entertainment.html (562 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lake Seliger": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		around Lake Seliger-not a lake but a reservoir dozens of miles long near the upper end of the Volga.
		a colony of juveniles (across the lake from the future country house of Zhdanov).
		Nilova Hermitage on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger became a camp.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lake-Seliger (447 words)

	digger@npj: -- НетПроектЖурнал
		Aufklärungsbattalion operates alone at west bank of Lake Ilmen, encounters enemy east of Borissowo.
		AM: Russian heavytank counter-attack on Nagowo which is repelled.
		17/08/41: Novgorod near Lake Ilmen falls under German control.
	www.npj.ru /digger (275 words)

	uExpress.com: Tell Me A Story by Amy Friedman and Jillian Gilliland -- (01/16/2005) adapted by Amy Friedman and ...
		One day he sat upon the shores of Lake Ilmen playing his instrument and singing of his many woes.
		As the sun began to set, the waves rose on the lake, and Sadko heard a great thundering noise.
		In the morning they all walked to the shores of Lake Ilmen.
	www.uexpress.com /tellmeastory/?uc_full_date=20050116 (982 words)

	Meaning and Definition of ilmen - A Mac-style Dictionary with thesaurus, examples, and sample sentences.
		Meaning and Definition of ilmen - A Mac-style Dictionary with thesaurus, examples, and sample sentences.
		Found 1 definition for ilmen, 1 meaning(s) and 0 example(s) in the dictionary.
		Synonym Dictionary (words equivalent of ilmen): Lake Ilmen, Ilmen,...
	www.dictionaryofdefinitions.com /what-is-the-definition-of-ilmen.html (61 words)

	Russian bylines-Sadko
		One day on the beach of Lake Ilmen he played such heartbreakingly beautiful music to the plants, the flowers, the birds, and the fish, that all of nature responded to his music.
		When he finished playing, the king of the lake rose up from the waves, and to reward him for his music he advised him: 'Make a bet with the merchants of Novgorod.
		He bet his head against nine clothes shops in the trade collective that there was a species offish with gold fins in Lake Ilmen.
	www.artrusse.ca /Byliny/sadko.htm (2038 words)

	TIME.com: Sadko -- Feb. 3, 1930 -- Page 1
		In the middle ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad.
		Merchants there knew that they owed their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea.
		Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,738519-1,00.html (700 words)

	TIME.com: Victory in the North -- Mar. 15, 1943 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The northern retreat began in the Demyansk swamps south of Lake Ilmen, where Marshal Semion Timoshenko climaxed an offensive with a great breakthrough (TIME, March 8).
		Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast that the Nazis left behind enough equipment for a full army corps.
		At week's end Timoshenko's army was threatening Staraya Russa, Nazi-held fortress just south of Lake Ilmen.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,884829,00.html (761 words)

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