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La·do·ga

 (lä′də-gə), Lake
A lake of northwest Russia northeast of St. Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe.
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Ladoga

(Russian ˈladəɡə)
n
(Placename) Lake Ladoga a lake in NW Russia, in the SW Karelian Republic: the largest lake in Europe; drains through the River Neva into the Gulf of Finland. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles). Russian name: Ladozhskoye Ozero
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La•do•ga

(ˈlɑ də gə)

n.
Lake, a lake in the Russian Federation, NE of St Petersburg: largest lake in Europe. 7000 sq. mi. (18,000 sq. km).
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Noun1.Ladoga - a lake in northwestern Russia to the north of St. Petersburg; the largest lake in Europe; drains through the Neva River into the Gulf of Finland
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Russian Federation, Russia - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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The city that sprawls between the Baltic Sea and Lake Ladoga is renowned for its numbingly cold winters, but summertime can bring the opposite extreme.
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The ship is designed to carry passengers on cruise lines on waterways of the European part of Russia (Volga, Neva, Don, Ladoga and Onega lakes, Volga-Baltic Canal, Moscow Canal, Volga-Don Canal), with the possibility of access to the Black, Azov and Caspian Seas.
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The sichel also occurs in southern Sweden and Finland, in the Ladoga Lake and the Onega Lake, and occasionally on the Baltic coast west of Vistula, as well as on the Finnish coast north of 61AdegN (Kottelat and Freyhof, 2007).
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Cat city The Red Army tried to take supplies to the city, sending trucks of food across the frozen lake Ladoga. But they faced aerial bombings by the Germans, and were often blown to pieces before they could make it across.
One mother killed her baby to feed her other children as rats ate bodies in the streets by the end of siege, Leningrad had lost two million citizens; 75 YEARS ON, HORRORS OF NAZIS' RU USSIAN BLOCKADE
And while the Red Army tried to send supplies to the city, sending trucks of food across the frozen lake Ladoga, they faced air bombings by the Germans and were often blown to pieces before they could make it across.
Cannibalism, corpses and how people survived the worst siege in history; Leningrad was blockaded by the Nazis for 872 days - and around 2million people died before the siege was lifted 75 years ago
"Shelling and bomb raids, albeit scary, never threatened my family in comparison with the food shortage." Supplies were brought by aircraft and across the often bombarded Lake Ladoga, east of the city, including when it was frozen over.
Russia recalls mass starvation of WWII Siege of Leningrad 75 years on
The settlement of the studied period was formed apparently directly on the transgression deposits in a time of regression and relative stability of Lake Ladoga (Gerasimov & Kul'kova 2003; Takala 2004).
A GROUP OF LATE COMB WARE FROM THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS
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Littoral phytoplankton of Lake Ladoga in the summer 2002.
Response of primary producers to water level fluctuations of Lake Peipsi
But I would avoid any Russian itineraries that include Lake Onega and Lake Ladoga. Anti-sickness bands offer a non-drowsy remedy.
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In 2010, Barnacle Geese started to breed on Ladoga Lake, and in 2015 the first nest was found on Onega Lake.
Nesting of Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) in the Russian Part of the Gulf of Finland

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