Originating at Shlisselburg and passing through Ivanovskaya, it receives the Volkhov and Svir tributaries. Despite being only forty-six miles long, its watershed is over one hundred thousand square miles, because it indirectly receives outlet from both Lake Saimaa and Lake Onega. Flowing out of Lake Ladoga, its Bolshaia and Malaya branches create a forty-six-island delta into the Gulf of Finland. For 10 points, in 1703, Zayachy Island in what river became the foundation of the new city of St. Pe
Originating at Shlisselburg and passing through Ivanovskaya, it receives the Volkhov and Svir tributaries. Despite being only forty-six miles long, its watershed is over one hundred thousand square miles, because it indirectly receives outlet from both Lake Saimaa and Lake Onega. Flowing out of Lake Ladoga, its Bolshaia and Malaya branches create a forty-six-island delta into the Gulf of Finland. For 10 points, in 1703, Zayachy Island in what river became the foundation of the new city of St. Petersburg?
Originating at Shlisselburg and passing through Ivanovskaya, it receives the Volkhov and Svir tributaries.
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