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  Lake Ladoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро (Ladozhskoye Ozero), Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, near the border with Finland.
The area of the lake is 17,700 km² (approximately 6,800 square miles).
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.
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 The late Pleisticene-Holocene history and modern state of the Lake Ladoga.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lake Ladoga, the largest lake of the Europe, is situated at the South-Eastern boarder of the Baltic crystalline shield and the Russian plain.
The outflow of the Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland is the Neva River.
It was the deep water large eastern bay of BIL The Holocene history of the lake depend of the rate of the isostatic uplift of the deglaciated territories.
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 Staraya Ladoga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fortress of Ladoga was built in stone in the 12th century and rebuilt 400 years later.
Ladoga's next mention in chronicles is dated to 1019, when Ingigerd of Sweden married Yaroslav of Novgorod.
Under the terms of marriage settlement, Yaroslav ceded Ladoga to his wife, who appointed her father's cousin, the Swedish earl Ragnvald Ulfsson, to rule the town.
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 Ladoga, Lake on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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.
The fortress at Petrokrepost commands the Neva's exit from the lake.
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.
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 RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: L :: Ladoga Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The lake is highest in June and July and lowest in December and January; its average annual range of elevation is about 2.6 feet (0.8 m), and the absolute maximum annual variation was about 9.8 feet (3 m).
Lake Ladoga's water, yellow-brown in colour, is fresh, with an average mineralisation of about 56 parts per million of calcium hydrocarbonate.
The lake is part of the Volga-Baltic water route and of the White Sea-Baltic Waterway system, through which freight is carried, without the need for transshipment, to points within Russia and to Finland, Germany, and other countries.
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 Ladoga, Lake
Largest lake in Europe, and the second largest in the Russian Federation after the Caspian Sea, situated in the far northwest of the Russian Federation, in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad oblast (region), northeast of the city of St Petersburg.
Lake Ladoga freezes at the edges from November–December, and in the centre between January and March.
A 14th-century monastery is situated on Valaam Island in the north of the lake.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0001829.html   (234 words)

  
 The International Monitoring Station on lake Ladoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The lake is the source of drinking water for St.Petersburg - one of the largest cities in the world; it also determines the water quality of the Gulf of Finland and, therefore, of the Baltic Sea.
The lack of a rationally formalized concept for monitoring of Lake Ladoga is a factor that reduces the efficiency of indicational and biomonitoring studies.
It is bound to serve for the estimation of the ecological state of Lake Ladoga as a whole, for estimation and forecasting of changes of the lake environment as a whole and in its separate monitoring zones, and for the elaboration of recommendations on the management of Lake Ladoga's ecosystem.
now.ifmo.ru /valaam/station.htm   (2242 words)

  
 Lake Ladoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The time required for renewal of the water in lake Ladoga is 11 years, which indicates that the ecosystem is rather conservative.
Lake Ladoga is situated on the borderline between the crystalline Baltic shield and Great Russian Plain, and the geological history of its drainage basin is very complicated.
Differences in the geological structure of the watershed are reflected in the structure of both shores and depressions of the lake.
www.spb.org.ru /lake/eng/ladoga.htm   (227 words)

  
 Holocene landscape evolution in the Karelian Isthmus and lake Ladoga area.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In the northern Ladoga area the elevation of the Baltic Ice Lake prior to its drainage 10200 BP is marked by shorelines at 70 - 80 m above sea level.
The Lake Ladoga basin was in connection with the Yoldia Sea via Heinjoki, east of Vyborg (Fig.
A dramatic event took place in the recent past in AD 1818 when a spring flood broke through a natural dam between Lake Suvanto and Lake Ladoga, the level of Suvanto dropped by several metres, and the River Taipaleenjoki was formed and became the principal new outlet of River Vuoksi.
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 Thesis - Local Factors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lake Ladoga and Nevskii Bay on the Gulf of Finland, part of the Baltic Sea, are the two dominant bodies of water.
Lying some 65 kilometers from St. Petersburg, Lake Ladoga is of utmost importance for the region because, along with the Neva River, it is the main source of fresh water for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast.
Ladoga's beauty and size, the easy access to large amounts of fresh water, and the nearby forest reserves have proven to be the lake's undoing, as population centers, factories, and farms formed around it.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ladoga Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ladoga, Lake (Russian, Ladozhskoye Ozero), lake, north-western Russia, near St Petersburg, the largest lake in Europe.
Lakes occur both in mountainous areas, such as in Switzerland, Italy, and Austria, and in plains regions, such as in Sweden, Poland, and Finland....
After Lake Ladoga, which lies to the south-west, it is the largest lake in Europe,...
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 Lake Ladoga --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In the European section the largest are Lakes Ladoga and Onega in the northwest, with surface areas of 6,830 and 3,750 square miles (17,680 and 9,720 square km), respectively; Lake Peipus (1,370 square miles [3,550 square km]) on the Estonian border; and the Rybinsk Reservoir on the Volga north of Moscow.
The river issues from Lake Ladoga at Shlisselburg and flows 46 miles (74 km) west to the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
The second largest lake in Europe, Lake Onega is in the northwestern part of Russia between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046795   (952 words)

  
 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: L :: Ladoga Lake
Eldest son of Emperor Paul I, Alexander I was born in St. Petersburg on December 12, 1777.
The climate in the Lake Ladoga region is moderately cold.
The coastal regions and inlets usually freeze at the beginning of December, and the open central area freezes in January or February; the average ice thickness is 20 - 23 inches (50 - 60 cm).
www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/l/ladoga.shtml   (578 words)

  
 Lake Ladoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
rightthumbMap of Scandinavia Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское озеро, Finnish: Laatokka) is the largest lake in Europe, located in Karelia, since WWII in northwestern Russia near the border to Finland.
Lake Ladoga empties via the Neva into the Gulf of Finland.
The 10th century Valamo Monastery was founded on the island of Valaam (Finnish: Valamo), the largest in Lake Ladoga, desolated 1611-1715, magnificently restored in the 18th century, and finally evacuated to Finland during the Winter War in 1940.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lake_ladoga.html   (238 words)

  
 Ladoga Lake Skerries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
May be you know, may be not, the Ladoga lake is the largest lake in Europe, having an area(surface) of more than 17.000 km2.The Neva river runs out of the Ladoga lake and, after passing through Saint Petersburg, comes into Finland gulf of the Baltic sea.
The Northern part of the Ladoga lake has a lot of islands, bays, fjords and gulfs.
That Ladoga lake region, so called Ladoga skerries, is a real Mekka for tourists, fishers and all those people, who enjoy the wild nature, the forest berries and the mushrooms, prefer absolutely unpolluted air to the city smog.
www.unilib.neva.ru /city/ladoga/ladoga.html   (175 words)

  
 St Petersburg And Lake Ladoga
To the east of the city is the 17 600 square km area Lake Ladoga (Ladozhskoye Ozero), one of the 15 largest freshwater reservoirs in the world.
Originally of glacial origin, Lake Ladoga is the main source of drinking water for the inhabitants of St. Petersburg.
The Lake has rich and varied plant and animal life and is the sole home of the critically endangered Lake Ladoga ringed seal, a subspecies adapted to freshwater.
www.spacedaily.com /news/eo-05zi.html   (632 words)

  
 Lake Ladoga 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Their classic ride is Around Lake Ladoga, an 800k with an option to quit at 600k.
(Not that that would be an option for me!) Lake Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe and one of the northernmost of the world's large lakes.
It's a cold night on the shores of the Ladoga Lake.
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 Lake Ladoga --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Some 70 rivers pour their icy waters into Lake Ladoga, Europe's largest freshwater lake.
Ladoga is ice-free only about six months of the year.
More results on "Lake Ladoga" when you join.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275349   (909 words)

  
 Lake Climatologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lakes in the former USSR: Lake Ladoga Lake Onega and Lake Baikal
Lakes in the former USSR: Lake ladoga Lake Onega
This is because these tests sometimes flags clear lake as cloud, epecially during spring.
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Malm J., Mironov D., Terzhevik A., Jönsson L., 1994, Investigation of the spring thermal regime in Lake Ladoga using field and satellite data.
Protozoa in Lake Ladoga as one of the indicators of its waters' heterogeneity.
An investigation of the thermal bar in Lake Ladoga during the spring 1991.
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 Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In 1959-1962, the surveys (2-4 times per year) were made on the whole lake water area during the period of open water.
Study of spatial and temporal distribution of bacterioplankton densities and activities in Lake Ladoga.
The lake area was divided on squares 10 x 10 km2.
www.limno.org.ru /eng/baza_en.htm   (1145 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lake Ladoga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ladoga, Lake (Russian Ladozhskoye Ozero), lake, northwestern Russia, near Saint Petersburg, the largest lake in Europe.
Karelia's principal industries are lumbering, woodworking, mining, machine building, metalworking, and the manufacture of building materials.
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 Ladoga, Lake
Among the many islands in the northern part of the lake is Valaam (Finnish
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
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 Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega finally delineated correctly
Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega finally delineated correctly
The atlas published by the Dutch publisher Joannes Janssonius (1596-1665) contains a significant improvement regarding the eastern parts of Finland; the Gulf of Finland, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega are finally drawn into the correct shape and scale.
However, no one had yet managed to refute the existence of Albus Lacus, so it still lurks in eastern Lappland.
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 AllRefer.com - Ladoga, Lake (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ladoga, Lake (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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 Lake Ladoga - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Lake Ladoga - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Lake Ladoga - Your Art History Reference Guide!
Petersburg) with trucks on winter roads over the ice, the "Road of Life", and by boat in the summer.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Lake_Ladoga   (222 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Lake Ladoga [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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