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The Times
March 31, 2018
My route led to the mouth of the Neva River on Russia's northeast coast and then onwards to Lake Ladoga and to where the Volkhov River joins the Ladoshka. By around 753AD there was a settlement there. They call it Staraya Ladoga — Old Ladoga — and it is Russia's oldest town. Various peoples had aÃâà...
Fox 59
March 23, 2018
He had a couple requirements: it couldn't end in "burg" or "ville," and couldn't be named after another town. The town ended up choosing Ladoga after finding "Lake Ladoga" on a map of Russia. We heard from some locals asking us to check out Ladoga for the first time on Your Town Friday, so we traveledÃâà...
Science Daily
February 9, 2018
Among the warmth-loving reptiles, the Grass Snake is generally considered a "cool" representative: Its present distribution even extends to the Siberian permafrost soils and the area around the Finnish-Russian Lake Ladoga. "However, it came as a complete surprise to all of us that this thermophilic snakeÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
January 22, 2018
A Russian Orthodox bishop has advised the faithful not to vote for Vladimir Putin when he stands for re-election in March, a nearly unheard of occurrence in the loyal church. The angry statement marked the first time an acting bishop has spoken against supporting the current president, according to theÃâà...
LifeGate
January 11, 2018
A new national park has been established in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. It extends for 122,000 hectares, is home to rocky islands covered by lush forests and is one of the old continent's largest. Lake Ladoga is a huge lake – Europe's biggest – located in a wild and inhospitable area in north-westernÃâà...
Sputnik International
November 22, 2017
76 years ago today, on November 22, 1941, the first convoy of trucks began their treacherous journey along the Road of Life, an ice road supply route built on top of frozen Lake Ladoga which saved over a million residents of the besieged city of Leningrad and the city itself from utter destruction during theÃâà...
The Moscow Times
August 17, 2017
Northern Russia's Lake Ladoga Islands Emit Dangerous Radiation Levels. By Tuesday night, however, Sergei Donskoi, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, denied that any change in the border had taken place. Donskoi added that water levels at the lake would normalize later in the year. “[LakeÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
June 19, 2017
A boat with five teenagers on board capsized on Lake Ladoga in the Karelian republic outside St. Petersburg on the evening of June 19 and three of them are missing, Karelian authorities told Russian news agencies. The boat carrying teenagers aged 16 to 18 who were on a fishing trip turned over nearÃâà...
HowStuffWorks
October 6, 2016
Included in the book is a poetic (and frankly disturbing) account of watching horses, fleeing a forest fire, mind you, plunge into the very cold Lake Ladoga, located on the Russian-Finnish border. A sudden wind shocks the water into a swift flash-freeze, which in turn freezes the rearing horses in place. There they remainÃâà...
The Moscow Times
March 30, 2016
Patches of the picturesque islands on Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia emit radiation at hundreds of times above the normal levels, military-news portal Voyennoye reported Tuesday, citing measurements by its journalists, taken more than half a century after a Soviet weapons-testing program thereÃâà...
