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4 unusual facts about Neva River


Bolshoy Dom

The building is located in the Central District of Saint Petersburg at the beginning of Liteyny Prospekt, one block from the Neva River.

Botik of Peter the Great

Peter continued to use it in state ceremonies and ordered that the boat be sailed down the Neva River on 30 August of every year.

Petro Jazz

The location of the festival is Peter & Paul Fortress, the very heart of St. Petersburg, situated on an island in the middle of Neva River.

Zoopark

They recorded on the banks of the Neva River in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) with a "choir" of homeless people playing percussion on metal cans.


Ingria in World War II

One of the fortifications ran from the mouth of the Luga River to Chudovo, Gatchina, Uritsk, Pulkovo and then through the Neva River.

Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace

The principal or Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg is so called because on the Feast of the Epiphany the Tsar descended this imperial staircase in state for the ceremony of the "Blessing of the Waters" of the Neva River, a celebration of Christ's baptism in the Jordan River.

Lipin Bor

Lake Beloye is a part of the Volga–Baltic Waterway (formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System), connecting the Rybinsk Reservoir in the river basin of the Volga and Lake Onega in the river basin of the Neva.

Lyubytinsky District

Since the Pes belongs to the basin of the Volga, and the Syas, the Pchyovzha, and the Msta all belong to the basin of the Neva, the district is crossed by the divide between the basins of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caspian Sea.


see also

Admiralteysky

Admiralty Embankment (Admiralteyskaya naberezhnaya), a street along the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russia