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	Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia
		The Neva river is only 46 1/4 miles long, flowing from the Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland, in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea.
		On average the river is 1300-2000 feet wide, but near the Peter and Paul fortress and the Hermitage it exceeds 2600 feet.
		The river is covered with ice between mid-December and the first quarter of April and during this period there's no navigation on the river.
	www.cityvision2000.com /city_tour/neva.htm (217 words)

	Neva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Neva (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).
		During the 16th century the mouth of the Neva River was the site of the Swedish fortress Nyen, and the inlet to the Ladoga - of the Russian fortress Oreshek, later renamed Shlisselburg.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neva (275 words)

	NEVA - LoveToKnow Article on NEVA
		Most of its alluvial burd~n being deposited in the lakes, the Neva takes a long time to alter its channels or extend its delta.
		The ordinary rise and fall of the river is comparatively slight, but when the west wind blows steadily for a long time, or when Lake Ladoga sends down its vast accumulations of block-ice, inundations of a dangerous kind occur, as in 1777, 1824, 1879 and 1903.
		According to observations extending from 1706 to 1899, the mean day of the freezing of the Neva is November 25th, the earliest October 28th, the latest January 9th, and the next latest December 26th.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEVA.htm (255 words)

	Fontanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fontanka (in Russian, Фонтанка) is the left branch of the river Neva, which flows through the whole of St.
		Fontanka is one of 93 rivers and channels in St. Petersburg.
		The river received its new name because water from it was taken for fountains of the Summer Garden.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fontanka (152 words)

	Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia
		The Neva River is only 46 miles long and flows from Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland, in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea.
		The river is covered with ice between mid-December and early April and during this period ships are unable to navigate the river.
		But, whatever the season, the Neva River is a wonderful accompaniment to the architectural splendor of the Winter Palace and Hermitage, the Admiralty, the Peter and Paul fortress, the Summer Gardens and the major landmarks that stand on its banks.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /virtual-tour/neva-river.asp (264 words)

	Neva home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The river connects Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe, to the Baltic Sea.
		For nearly half its length, as it widens and diverges into the Neva Bay, the river is within the city limits of St. Petersburg, which makes it perhaps the most urban river in the world.
		Peter's maritime city and its rivers and canals have also inspired some of the greatest works of Russian poetry and prose.
	fla.esf.edu /research/nevaproject/home.htm (213 words)

	St. Petersburg - Environment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Neva is a vast river with an average flow of 2500 m³ per second and the catchment area of nearly 300 000 km²;.
		Kiselev, I.A. Fitoplankton Nevskoi guby i vostochnoi chasty Finskogo zaliva (Phytoplankton in the Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland).
		Nezhikhovsky, R.A. Reka Neva i Nevskaja guba (The River Neva and the Neva Bay).
	www.valt.helsinki.fi /projects/enviro/cities/pet/pet_envi.htm (1041 words)

	The Neva Bay: geological structure and history of development in Pleistocene-Holocene. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Neva Bay is limited from east to a mouth of the Neva River, from west to the protective dam of St. Petersburg (from Gorskaja - island Kotlin - to Lomonosov).
		The geological structure of the Neva bay bottom is determined by presence of a bedrock basement, which is overlapped by a continuous cover of the Quaternary deposits.
		The next history of development of the Neva Bay is connected to the beginning of the transgression of Litorina sea, which began owing to penetration of salt ocean waters through the Danish straits.
	arhipel.hiiumaa.ee /norfa/abstracts/petersburg/35.html (1297 words)

	The Neva River Rockets, Trio from St. Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neva River Rockets hillbilly trio was formed in summer 2000, yhey hail from St.-Petersburg, Russia.
		In spring of 2001 two tracks by Neva River Rockets were issued on a compilation of Russian rockabilly 'Rockabilly Girl'.
		This is exactly the music that is performed now by Neva River Rockets and its members constantly try to make their sound more authentic.
	www.rockabilly.nl /artists/nevariverrockets.htm (497 words)

	Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Neva River itself, together with its many canals and their granite embankments and bridges, gives the city a unique and striking ambience.
		On the other bank of the Neva, the spit of the Vasilievsky island is graced by the former Bourse building (1805–1810), reminiscent of a classic Greek temple, with two great Rostral Columns, decorated with ships' prows, standing in front of it.
		But the first Russian museum was established by Peter the Great in the Kunstkammer, erected in 1718–1734 on the opposite bank of the Neva River and formerly a home to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Petersburg (4459 words)

	Clearwater - Sleepless in St. Petersburg
		As the river flows through St. Petersburg it spreads into an alluvial fan and divides around the many islands upon which much of the city is built.
		Dave Conover leads a Hudson River station; the children are lively and curious, belying the statistics we hear from the school directors: over half of them arrive with no breakfast, and eat neither breakfast nor lunch at school.
		Neva River Clearwater is a band of volunteers who, Kostya believes, if paid would soon collapse in envy and dissent.
	www.clearwater.org /news/stpetersburg.html (1072 words)

	Sightseeing in Saint Petersburg
		The first construction of the new Russian capital, the Peter and Paul Fortress, occupies the central position in the architectural ensemble of the city center, and the Peter and Paul Cathedral with its high bell tower is one of the main landmarks of Saint Petersburg.
		The silhouette of the Peter and Paul fortress became a remarkable landmark of the city on the Neva River.
		One of the best Baroque architectural ensembles of Saint Petersburg the Smolny Cathedral is situated on the bank of the River Neva on that very place where under Peter the Great there was built a tar yard ("Smolny" is Russian for tar) that supplied the Admiralty with resin for the shipbuilding.
	www.saint-petersburg-hotels.com /sights.htm (1088 words)

	Neva - TheBestLinks.com - Gulf of Finland, Lake Ladoga, Russia, Sweden, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neva, Gulf of Finland, Lake Ladoga, Russia, Sweden, Saint Petersburg...
		River Neva (Нева́) is 74 km long river flowing from Lake Ladoga through the Carelian Isthmus to the Gulf of Finland at the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia.
		During the 16th century the mouth of the Neva river was the site of the Swedish fortress Nyen.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Neva.html (173 words)

	Art Gallery : Artwork
		Alexander of the Neva) and was later declared a Saint of the Russian Orthodox Church for his efforts to protect Russia and its Christian faith.
		In the 16th century the power and prosperity of Novgorod was subdued by Moscow and the lands along the Neva River became part of the centralized Russian state - Muscovite Russia.
		Originally there were no bridges crossing the mighty Neva River and people had to be ferried between banks by boat, one of the reasons why St. Petersburg was given the epithet "the Venice of the North".
	www.gallery-worldwide.com /cmItem.jsp?id=3569 (2362 words)

	Neva home
		The river connects Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe, to the Baltic Sea.
		For nearly half its length, as it widens and diverges into the Neva Bay, the river is within the city limits of St. Petersburg, which makes it perhaps the most urban river in the world.
		Peter's maritime city and its rivers and canals have also inspired some of the greatest works of Russian poetry and prose.
	enspire.syr.edu /nevaproject (213 words)

	Neva River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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 Malaya Neva and the distributary known as the Bolshaya Nevka enclose a group of islands...
		Petersburg is located on the delta of the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055413?tocId=9055413 (796 words)

	Learn more about Saint Petersburg in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Neva River and numerous canals are well integrated with the city spaces all these waterways in striking relief throughout the city with their various embankments and bridges further adding to the unique atmosphere of the city.
		During the city's original construction, the mouth of the Neva was routed into a series of canals, which still criscross the central portion of the city, giving it the name of Venice of the North.
		It is the centre of the local road and railway system, and has a seaport (in the Gulf of Finland of Baltic Sea) and river ports (in the delta of Neva).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sa/saint_petersburg.html (1091 words)

	Saint Petersburg, Russia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The city is located on both banks of the Neva River and on a number of river islands.
		Located in the Neva River delta, Saint Petersburg spreads over the mainland and 42 river islands and is divided by more than 60 river branches and 20 canals.
		Situated on the south bank of the Neva and circumscribed to the east and south by the Fontanka River is the Admiralty district, the hub of the city, where the main avenues of central Saint Petersburg come together.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /saint_petersburg_russia.htm (1416 words)

	Pravda.RU Neva river drowned in mazut: reservoirs of the Northwestern region threatened with ecological catastrophe
		Pravda.RU Neva river drowned in mazut: reservoirs of the Northwestern region threatened with ecological catastrophe
		Neva river drowned in mazut: reservoirs of the Northwestern region threatened with ecological catastrophe
		“Neva’s majestic stream” mentioned by famous Russian poet Pushkin in his poem “Eugene Onegin” is not as majestic as it was in the Russian classic’s time.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2002/03/27/27202.html (3009 words)

	St. Petersburg 1900, Photo 2 On the Neva, a Petersburg Travelogue by Bob Atchison
		At Smolnyi the river is a vast 2100 feet wide and the pallid surface of the Neva can be deceptive for the river contains rapid and treacherous currents.
		The vast and marshy Neva delta was an unusual place to build a capital city.
		In the 1760's a citizen of Petersburg could proudly dip his glass into the Neva River and drink it down without fear, for the soft waters of the Neva were renowned for their cleanliness and Neva waters were even believed to possess health-building properties.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /petersburg1900/2.html (713 words)

	Destination Russia - The Worlds Gateway to Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The lands along the Neva River have belonged to the Ancient Russian State since at least the 9th century.
		When in the 16th century Novgorod was subdued by Moscow, the lands along the Neva River again became part of the centralized Russian state, Muscovite Russia.
		For the reminder of the century the Neva River area became a part of Sweden, and the Swedes effectively cut the Russia from the Baltic trade.
	www.destinationrussia.com /sdp.aspx?pg=histspb1&src=f (1016 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)

	Neva
		Neva, river, 46 mi (74 km) long, NW European Russia, connecting Lake Ladoga with the Gulf of Finland, an inlet of the Baltic Sea.
		The Neva is connected by canal systems with the Volga River and with the White Sea.
		Petrodvorets - Petrodvorets, formerly Peterhof, city, NW European Russia, on Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0835338.html (137 words)

	Saint-Petersburg
		The city of Saint Petersburg lies on the flat and marshy shores of the Neva River at the place where it flows into the Gulf of Finland over a delta of 42 islands.
		On the northern side it is bounded by the Palace embankment, on the eastern side - by the Fontanka River, on the western side - by the Lebyazhaya gutter.
		In 1807 - 1810 at the Spit the building of the Stock Exchange in the form of the ancient temple was constructed upon the project of Thomas de Thomon and with the participation of the architect A.D.Zakharov.
	www.serzh.ru /spb/index_en.html (1439 words)

	Neva River Rockets :: rockabilly band from St. Petersburg, Russia
		Neva River Rockets :: rockabilly band from St. Petersburg, Russia
		We are Neva River Rockets, rockin' 50's three piece band from St. Petersburg, Russia.
		If you want to hear more from them, don't hesitate to order Neva River Rockets' CD from TCY-Records.
	www.hillbilly.ru (468 words)

	In Search of St. Petersburg -- Russia's Crown Jewel City: Both Polished and Tarnished
		However, the poverty of the factory and shipyard workers contrasted greatly with the luxury of the royal court, leading to uprisings in 1825 and 1905.
		Several bridges span the broad Neva River, while the majority of the interesting sites are located south of the river along three concentric canals, Moika, Griboyedova, and Fontanka.
		The major boulevard, Nevsky Prospekt, runs from its origin at the river, near the Hermitage, in a southeasterly direction, crossing all three canals.
	www.highonadventure.com /Hoa02jun/Russia/stpetersburg.htm (1528 words)

	Excursion on the Neva River, St. Petersburg, Russia: excursion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One can fully enjoy the beauty of St. Petersburg, as a sea city, also called "The Northern Venice", only during excursion on its main river – the Neva, proudly carrying its waters along the granite-clad embankments.
		Excursion on the Neva river is a unique possibility to see St. Petersburg in its full splendour and feel the authentic city's atmosphere.
		The marvelous Menshikov palace is, by all means, worth being noted – it was built for the favourite of Peter the Great and the first governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Menshikov.
	www.planetaru.com /en/exc/view/neva.shtml (532 words)

	description (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 water quality and hydrology of the Neva are the subjects of voluminous scientific research, spurred on by the twin interests of flood prevention and improvement of the city’s drinking water supply.
		Is the myth of the river independent of the fact of the river – its water, its flow, its microorganisms, vegetation, pollutants?
	fla.esf.edu /research/nevaproject/description.html (388 words)

	Response to Framework
		The Neva River runs through the middle of the city, and as in many cities industry is clustered along the banks of the river, though thankfully at a distance from the cultural heart of the city.
		The buildings consistently face the river, and pedestrians are drawn in both by the appealing facades with their Easter egg paint colors and by the sight of the Neva splashing along.
		Even walking across the Neva we couldn't help noticing the constant smell of exhaust that permeates the city, particularly if the old diesel vehicles were idling in a traffic jam, waiting to get across the bridge.
	www.1000fom.org /LPWaterTransitGoodDesign.htm (970 words)

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