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3 unusual facts about Ladoga


Chester Hazen

He eventually settled on a farm in Ladoga, Wisconsin, where he started the first cheese making factory in Wisconsin.

Ladoga, Indiana

Designed by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge-builder, George Ferris, Luther Rice of Ladoga agreed to build it.

The town of Ladoga lays claim to the Chicago World's Fair Ferris wheel.


Battle of Nietjärvi

The frontline - up till July 1944 - had been following closely the banks of the River Svir, which flows from Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga.

Demographics of Saint Petersburg

From September 1941 through April 1942 659,000 civilians were evacuated mainly by watercraft and ice road over the Ladoga lake.

Finnlands Lebensraum

The new eastern border of Finland was defined to begin from the Gulf of Finland and run via lakes Ladoga and Onega to Onega Bay in the White Sea.

Hindens rev

The latter is in turn part of a series of terminal moraines that runs from southern Norway through Dalsland, Skaraborg and Östergötland, continuing under the Baltic Sea into southern Finland and Russia as the Salpausselkä moraine which separates lakes Ladoga and Saimaa.

Karelian Front

The front between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega was split of to the independent 7th Army during the static phase of the war.

Karl Lennart Oesch

Oesch was given command of Olonets Group in the Olonets Isthmus between Lakes Onega and Ladoga.

Lagoda

Originally intended to be named "Ladoga" after Lake Ladoga in Russia, the letters "d" and "g" were accidentally swapped and, due to superstition that correcting the name would bring bad luck, she remained the "Lagoda".

Lake Ladoga

However, both Soviet Russia and Finland had flotillas in Ladoga (see also Finnish Ladoga Naval Detachment).

Lyubsha

Dmitry Machinsky ranks it, along with Ladoga and Alaborg, among the most important centres of the khaganate.

Vodohod

After merging with Volga Flot Tour company operates more than 50 passenger ships along rivers of Volga, Don, Kama, the Moscow and Volga-Don canals, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, Northern-Western rivers, lakes Ladoga and Onega.

Volkhovsky District

The St. George's Church is located in the Staraya Ladoga fortress, whereas a much bigger Assumption Cathedral is the katholikon of the Assumption Monastery.

Another monastery in Staraya Ladoga is the Saint Nicholas Monastery.

According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik established his residence in Ladoga before moving to Novgorod, and thus Staraya Ladoga is sometimes considered as the first historical capital of Russia.

Many of the old buildings in Staraya Ladoga, including the St. George's Cathedral, the fortress, and the wooden Church of Saint Dimitry, belong to the Staraya Ladoga Museum Reserve.


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