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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Volkhov River
		The level of water is regulated by the Volkhov hydroelectric dam (the first Soviet regional hydroelectric dam opened on December 19, 1926 in the framework of the GOELRO plan) situated 25 km upstream the mouth of the river.
		A figure representing the Volkhov appears among the allegorical monuments to the four major rivers of Russia on the rostral columns in the ensemble of the St.
		In the mid-9th century, the Volkhov was a heavily populated trade artery of the Varangian-dominated Rus' Khaganate.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Volkhov_River (528 words)

	Volkhov River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Volkhov River (Russian: Во́лхов) is a river in Novgorod and Leningrad Oblasts in Russia.
		The level of water is regulated by the Volkhov hydroelectric dam (the first hydroelectric dam in Russia and in the Soviet Union, opened on December 19, 1926) situated 25 km upstream the mouth of the river.
		Volkhov is connected to the Msta River by the Siversov channel.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Volkhov-River.htm (289 words)

	Museum of the Town of Volkhov
		Since then many projects to improve navigation by the river have been created but it was only in 1926 that one of them was implemented finally.
		In the years of Great Patriotic War Volkhov happened to be the town connecting Leningrad in siege with mainland.
		The Museum of the Town of Volkhov occupies the peculiar building being the home to Genrikh Graftio when he was in charge of the Volkhovskaya hydropower station construction.
	www.oblmuseums.spb.ru /eng/museums/13/guide.html (693 words)

	Volkhov - TheBestLinks.com - Volkhov River, April, Area, Vladimir Lenin, ...
		The Volkhov River (Волхов in Russian), a river in the Novgorod Oblast and Leningrad Oblast in Russia.
		Volkhov's main tributaries are Oskuya, Pchevzha, Kerest and Tigoda.
		The river freezes up in the late November and breaks up in the early April.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Volkhov_River.html (150 words)

	Rurikovo Gorodishe (Holmgard)
		At the end of the first millennium AD the sources of the Volkhov river together with the adjacent north-western Lake Ilmen area were the core land of the northern Slav commune that had settled there.
		Numerous Slav settlements were situated on the hills between the Volkhov flood land and that of Ilmen whereas their central pagan sanctuary was established at Peryn.
		Situated on the island where the Volkhov river divided into two branches, opposite the pagan sanctuary at Peryn, Gorodishche represented a naturally defended key point of the surrounding land and the whole Lake Ilmen basin.
	www.archeo.ru /eng/projects/rg.htm (628 words)

	Monument to Emperor Alexander II Found… On the River Bottom?
		So, the works on the bottom of the Volkhov river, planned for the end of January, can be done not earlier than in February 10-20 or 20-28.
		The Novgorod divers started seeking the monument to emperor Alexander II on the bottom of the Volkhov river on January 18.
		On May 2, 1920, already in Soviet Russia, during a communist subbotnik, when a wave of the struggle against the monuments to tsarism was sweeping Russia, the stone monument was thrown from the landing pier into the Volkhov river.
	nyjtimes.com /Stories/2005/MonumentToTsarAlexanderIIFoundOnRiverBottom.htm (397 words)

	Museum of the Town of Volkhov
		The Museum of the Town of Volkhov is situated on the picturesque left bank of the Volkhov river opposite to the Volkhovskaya hydropower station.
		Its collection features the growth of the town of Volkhov around the Zvanka railway station and the history of the early grand construction sites of Soviet industrialization era when a newly born Soviet state was undertaking a technological break-through to become an industrialized country.
		The period of the World War II when Volkhov was a center connecting Leningrad with the country and later development of the town are also documented in the museum collection.
	www.oblmuseums.spb.ru /eng/museums/13/info.html (282 words)

	Lake Ilmen -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		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.
		river port and capital of the Staraya Russa rayon (sector), Novgorod oblast (province), northwestern Russia, on the Polist River.
		The name, however, is sometimes given to the widened parts of rivers and to bodies of water that are in direct connection with the sea.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9367821?tocId=9367821 (914 words)

	Kids Be Safe : Article 'Lake Ladoga' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Taipale at the Mannerheim Line, then approximately 20 kilometers from the Soviet border, became known for heavy fighting during the Winter War, and was held by the Finnish forces until the end of that war, when all of the Karelian Isthmus was ceded to the Soviet Union and had to be evacuated in haste.
		River Svir, that marks the southern boundary of Karelia, runs from the southern shore of Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga, and continues in the Neva to the Gulf of Finland.
		Finnish_advance_in_Karelia_during_the_Continuation_War.png River Svir as the border river of Karelia, in red is marked the territory held by Finnish forces in 1944 The river Svir (Свирь, Finnish: Syvýri) connects Lake Onega with Lake Ladoga in Russia, and is considered the southern border of East Karelia.
	www.kidsbesafe.org /DisplayArticle44755.html (612 words)

	EHDP. Volkhov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Volkhov (population 51 000) is a small city located on the Volkhov River approximately 125 km (2 hours by car) east of St. Petersburg on highways M18 and A115.
		The river bisects the city into a north western and southeastern half.
		Volkhov is a major transport hub for railway connections.
	www.fer.ru /ehdp/english/volkhov.htm (66 words)

	Novgorod Veliky Hotels
		The Volkhov hotel is within 5-7 minutes walk from the train and bus stations.
		The hotel is located in the center of the city, at the bank of the Volkhov river, close to the main sights and Kremlin Park.
		Novgorod is one of the most ancient cities of Russia located in its North-West, near the site where the Volkhov river takes its waters from Lake Ilmen, emerged as a political center of Slavic and Fino-Ugric tribes in the mid-9th century, while as a town it was formed in the middle of the 10th century.
	www.hotels-russia.info /novgorod-v.htm (410 words)

	Lubansk operation. Battle Of Leningrad - lenbat.narod.ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The instruction of the Soviet High Command from December 17, to the "Volkhov" front in structure 4-th, 59-th, 2-th Shock and 52-nd armies put a task to proceed in general offensive, having for an object to break German armies, on the west bank of Volkhov river, and went on front line Lubane-Cholovo.
		Rendering the main impact 2-nd Soviet Shock army, the task was put: to break through defence line on the west bank of Volkhov river and outcome of Januarys 19, 1942 on the Kereste river and Luga.
		For liquidation forces, interrupted communications of 2-nd Shock army, Soviet Command the "Volkhov" front were attracted 372-th rifle division, 24-th and 58-th separate rifle brigades, 4-th and 24-th Guards rifle divisions and 7-th a tank brigade.
	lenbat.narod.ru /eng/lub42.htm (858 words)

	Games Depot
		Soon, a Spanish attack across the river toward the East was organized.
		This is simulated in the scenario by the use of shallow water
		hexes representing the river since this allows units to pass over the river.
	www.wargamer.com /gamesdepot/details.asp?sid=3452 (384 words)

	Russia Engages the World - NYPL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He ordered that each man be tied to a sled, be dragged to the Volkhov bridge behind the fast-moving sleds, and be thrown into the Volkhov River (which bisects Novgorod) from the bridge.
		He commanded that they be chained on the arms and legs and that the children be tied to their mothers and then be thrown from the platform into the waters of the Volkhov River.
		In a horrible manner they were submerged without mercy in the depths of the river, and abandoned to a terrible and bitter death.
	dlc.nypl.org /russia.nypl.org/Translation/punishment.html (381 words)

	What is Novgorod - facts about the city - WayToRussia.Net Guide to Novgorod, Russia
		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.
		All the factories are located outside of the city centrum, down Volkhov river, so the place next to the Kremlin is ok to swim and the air in the city is not polluted.
	www.waytorussia.net /CentralRussia/Novgorod/Novgorod.html (974 words)

	Old Peter's Russian Tales, Arthur Ransome - Section 3 of 21 - Book Club/Short Stories - ArcaMax Publishing
		And still he said, "There is no girl in all Novgorod as pretty as my little river." Every time he came back from his long voyages--for he was trading far and near, like the greatest of merchants--he went at once to the banks of the river to see how his sweetheart fared.
		And there was the sound of wind over the lake in his song, the sound of ripples under the prow of a boat, the sound of ripples on the shore, the sound of the river flowing past the tall reeds, the whispering sound of the river at night.
		And with that touch of cold he woke, and he was lying under the walls of Novgorod, with his dulcimer in his hand, and one of his feet was in the little river Volkhov, and the moon was shining.
	www.arcamax.com /shortstories/b-1011-3 (2805 words)

	Volkhov River -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The river is 139 miles (224 km) long and drains a basin of 31,000 square miles (80,200 square km).
		At the town of Volkhov the first hydroelectric station in the Soviet Union was built…
		The Cherokee used River Cane for weaving and for hunting.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075674 (274 words)

	Old Ladoga
		Staraya Ladoga is a rather small settlement in the Leningrad Region situated 128 kilometers east of St. Petersburg, on the Volkhov River.
		It was founded in the middle of the 8th century and till the middle of the 9th century was the largest settlement in the Russian North and the center for northern Slavonic and Finnish tribes: Slovens, Krivachi, Meria, Ves and Chud.
		The historical center of the settlement was the 15th century stone fortress having five mighty many-tiered towers, situated on the cape formed by the Volkhov and Ladozhka rivers.
	cult.gatchina.ru /ladoga/eladoga.htm (637 words)

	Photo Guide to St.Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This plan, more or less intact, was later usurped by Lenin and his Bolsheviks, after they seized power in the coup on November 7, 1917, and then became known to the generations of Soviet schoolchildren as GOELRO (Gosudarstevennaja Elekrofikacija Rossii - or the State Electrification of Russia).
		The dam across Volhov (Volkhov) river, the locks and the hydroelectric power plant were designed between 1910 and 1913 by an engineering team of G. Krivoshein, B. Kalinovich and G. Graftio.
		The hydropower plant was constructed under supervision of one of its original designers; Genrih (Heinrich) Graftio, a nobleman of Dutch ancestry whose family took Russian citizenship in the 19th century, who was a known engineer in the Czarist Russia, rand chose to stay in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik putsch.
	guide.photofora.com /hydro_1.html (680 words)

	Medieval Russia -- Geography -- "The City of Novgorod"
		This moderation in temperatures allows a mixed deciduous (primarily oak, maple, elm, and ash) and coniferous (pine and fir) forest to grow in the fertile soil of the Ilmen Basin in the vicinity of Novgorod.
		The medieval town of Novgorod was situated in a fairly marshy area on the Volkhov River, two or three miles north of where that river meets Lake Ladoga, about 100 miles south of present-day St. Petersburg and about 320 miles northwest of Moscow.
		They also would have pointed out the market across the river from the detinets, the great open space where the Varangian mercenaries made their camp, and the other, smaller open space, next to the church of St. Nicholas, where the veche held its meetings.
	medievalrussia.freeservers.com /geography-nicolaa.html (1567 words)

	Digital photo. Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Pskov, Novgorod, Karelia and others.
		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.
		It's often named "grey river" because of it's ripples (windy weather is usual here).
	photocity.ru /Album17/idx_en.php (58 words)

	Red Orchestra - RO-VolkhovRiver41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		3 little villages/house collections along a river would have clear paths and some sort of road/cart system between them, and the change in layout and materials should be more clearly marked between the areas where rich people have paid to make things nice or where businesses/government have made things for industrial and business use.
		I would keep the river and the huts and cap points, but try make an obvious "spine" for the map of a major road, and have increased development lead into the docks/cannery area.
		I would think that all of their life is in relationship to the river, so having a road that runs along it that connects these homes to the rest of the river's cities and towns makes sense.
	redorchestra.clanservers.com /forums/printthread.php?t=1918 (1540 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Novgorod: Climate and Locale) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Novgorod is located on the river Volkhov, in a lake district.
		Marshy area on the Volkhov River, two or three miles north of where that river meets Lake Lagoda (about 100 miles south of present day St. Petersburg and 320 miles northwest of Moscow).
		The town center was split in half by the Volkhov River.
	members.aol.com /ingigerthr/Novgorod_Climate_and_Locale.html (202 words)

	RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: V :: Volkhov River
		It is the major outlet for Lake Ilmen, whence it flows past Novgorod and directly north-northeast into Lake Ladoga across a level, swampy basin.
		The river is 139 mi (224 km) long and drains a basin of 31,000 sq mi (80,200 sq km).
		At the town of Volkhov the first hydroelectric station in the Soviet Union was built in 1926.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/v/print/volkhov.shtml (87 words)

	The City of Novgorod
		The medieval town of Novgorod was situated in a fairly marshy area on the Volkhov River, two or three miles north of where that river meets Lake Ladoga, about 100 miles south of present-day St. Petersburg and about 320 miles northwest of Moscow.
		According to the Primary Chronicle, Novgorod was supposedly founded in 862 by Rurik, eponymous founder of the Rurikid dynasty which provided the Rus' with their ruling house until the destruction of Kiev by the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
		They also would have pointed out the market across the river from the detinets, the great open space where the Varangian mercenaries made their camp, and the other, smaller open space, next to the church of St. Nicholas, where the veche held its meetings.
	members.tripod.com /nicolaa5/articles/Rus/novgor.html (1518 words)

	bobsville adventure magazine, page 1
		Novgorod is situated on the river Volkhov, 6 km from lake Ilmen, 531 km from Moscow, 189 km from St.-Petersburg.
		This ancient city on the Volkhov river was at one time one of the largest cities in Europe and the largest state in Europe at that time, the Republic of Novgorod.
		Kiev was an important city on the trade route because there is a great falls on the river here and all boats and cargo had to be unloaded and carried around the falls.
	www.bobsville.com /adventure/p1.html (1034 words)

	Definition of Volkhov River
		Volkhov River (Волхов in Russian) is a river in the Novgorod Oblast and Leningrad Oblast in Russia.
		Volkhov flows out of the Lake Ilmen and into the Lake Ladoga.
		Volkhov's main tributaries are Oskuya, Pchevzha, Kerest and Tigoda.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Volkhov_River (164 words)

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