Novaya Ladoga

Novaya Ladoga () is a toun in Volkhovsky Destrict o Leningrad Oblast, Roushie, locatit at the point whaur the Volkhov River flows intae Lake Ladoga,  east o St. Petersburg. Population: 

The Nikolo-Medvedsky (St. Nicolas) Monastery stuid on the steid o the modren toun syne the 15t century, but the nearbi settlement (sloboda) wis lang owershadaeed bi the first Roushie caipital, Staraya Ladoga, locatit juist a few miles upstream. In 1702–1704, durin the Great Northren War, Peter the Great established a shipyard there, fortifeed the monastery an ordered the population o Staraya Ladoga tae relocate tae the nearbi veelage. The newly foondit toun grew in importance in connection wi construction o the Ladoga Canal an Volga-Baltic Waterway in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Category:Ceeties an touns in Leningrad Oblast
Category:Populatit places established in the 1700s