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View of Lake Seliger near Ostashkov in 1910. List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: Achchyon (Аччён) Akush (Акуш) Arakhley (Арахле́й)
Lake Ladoga [a] is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake located entirely in Europe, the second largest lake in Russia after Lake Baikal , and the 14th largest freshwater lake by area in the world.
Recreation map of Lake Sapsho. Smolenskoye Poozerye National Park (Russian: Смоленское Поозерье, which translates as Smolensk Lakes) is a forest-wetland ecosystem of 35 lakes and surroundings in the northwest of Smolensk Oblast near the Russian border with Belarus, about 40 miles (64 km) north of the city of Smolensk. [1]
This is a list of cities and towns in Russia. According to the data of 2010 Russian Census , there are 1,117 cities and towns in Russia. After the Census, Innopolis , a town in the Republic of Tatarstan , was established in 2012 and granted town status in 2015.
Seliger (Russian: Селиге́р, IPA: [sʲɪlʲɪˈgʲer]) is a lake in Ostashkovsky District of Tver Oblast and (in the extreme northern part) in Demyansky District of Novgorod Oblast of Russia, in the northwest of the Valdai Hills, a part of the Volga basin. It has an absolute height of 205 metres (673 ft), an area of 212 square kilometres ...
Lake Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe, with total area encompassing 17,890 km (11,120 mi); it has various fishes. [2] In the post- World War I era, the lake became popular among tourists. [ 3 ] The earliest proposal for creation of a national park was proposed by Karelian Research Centre of RAS in late 1980s. [ 4 ]
It includes all islands in Russia with an area greater than 3,000 square kilometres (1,158 sq mi) and some of the more significant minor islands. Atlasov Island from space, September 1992 Kunashir Island coastline: photo taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in November 2010 The Shamanka Шаманка [ ru ] , a holy rock in Shamanism and ...
The Kalevalsky pine forest covers one of the last, large old-growth boreal pine forest in Europe. It is situated on the border between Russia and Finland at about the midpoint from south to north. The park is located in the Republic of Karelia. The Kalevala, an epic poem of Finnish and Karelian oral folklore, was drawn from this region. [15 ...