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Definition of Lake Ladoga

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Lake Ladoga

1. Proper noun. A freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe. ¹

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Literary usage of Lake Ladoga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of Proceedings (1908)
"... the Emperor Peter the Great and Emperor Alexander II canals* It then re-embarks on the Apostol Pavel and makes a fairly long excursion on Lake Ladoga. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The level of Lake Ladoga is 55 feet above the Gulf of Finland, ... No less than sixty rivers eater Lake Ladoga, pouring into it the waters of numberless ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1869)
"The following results have been obtained by the hydrographical expedition to Lake Ladoga. Twenty-eight astronomical observations were made with the ..."

4. Across Russia: From the Baltic to the Danube by Charles Augustus Stoddard (1891)
"This river is forty-two miles long from Lake Ladoga, where it rises, to the Gulf of Finland, where it empties its waters. It flows with a deep, ..."

5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1896)
"Pré-ff istorie Man of the Stone Age on the Banks of Lake Ladoga. ... geology of the south side of Lake Ladoga ; the fauna and flora thereabouts of the Stone ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A line drawn from the head of the Gulf of Bothnia to the eastern coast of Lake Ladoga divides Finland into two distinct parts, the lake region and the ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"The following results have been obtained by the hydrographical expedition to Lake Ladoga. Twenty-eight astronomical observations were made with the ..."

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