ВотLake Ladoga (lake Ladoga; in ancient times nebo) is a lake in the Republic of Karelia (North and East coast) and Leningrad region (Western, southern and South-Eastern coast), the largest freshwater lake in Europe.
Belongs to the basin of the Baltic sea of the Atlantic ocean. The lake area without the Islands is from 17,9 thousand km2 (including the Islands of 18.3 thousand km2)[2]; volume of water mass is — 838 km3; length from North to South is 219 km, the maximum width is 125 km away. the Height above sea level of 4.84 m[2][3]. The depth varies unevenly distributed: in the Northern part it ranges from 70 to 230 m, in South — from 20 to 70 m[4]. On the shores of lake Ladoga, located in the city of Priozersk, Novaya Ladoga, Shlisselburg in the Leningrad region, Sortavala, Pitkyaranta, lakhdenpokhya in the Republic of Karelia. In the Ladoga lake is fed by 40 rivers and large streams, as follows one — the Neva river[5]. In the southern half of the lake — three large bays: the Svir, Volkhov and Shlisselburg lips[6].