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Lake Ladoga (Russian: Ладожское, Finnish: Laatokka) is very large lake in Russia. It is the largest lake in Europe and one of the 20 largest lakes on Earth.

There are six hundreds islands in the lake.

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  • Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary b33 242-0

    Lake Ladoga, as illustrated in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890—1907)

  • Konevets Cathedral from east

    Konevsky monastery

  • Lake Ladoga as part of Baltic Ice Lake

    Lake Ladoga as part of the Baltic Ice Lake (between 11200 and 10500 yr BP). The light blue line marks the margin of the ice sheet by 13300 cal yr BP.

  • Lake Ladoga as part of Ancylus Lake

    Lake Ladoga as part of the Ancylus Lake (between 9300 and 9200 yr BP). The dark green line marks the southern shoreline of Lake Ladoga during the Yoldia stage of the Baltic basin.

  • Ладожское озеро. Мыс Рихиниеми

    Rocky shore

  • The archipelago in Ladoga Lake with the Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour.

    The archipelago in Ladoga Lake with the Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour

  • Gorskii 04417u

    Rafts on the Peter the Great Canal. City of Shlisselburg

  • Konevets Sand beach

    Konevets Island

  • Sortavala harbour

    Sortavala harbour, Karelia

  • St. Nicholas Skete on island Valaam on Ladoga lake and little ship.

    Saint Nicholas Skete on island Valaam on Ladoga lake and little ship

  • Priroda Valaamskogo arhipelaga

    Valaam Archipelago

  • Валун у Видлицы

    Boulder on Vidlitsa, west shore

  • Lake Ladoga - superior mirage 2

    Superior mirage on Lake Ladoga

  • Shlisselburg

    Oreshek Fortress on Ladoga shore in Shlisselburg

  • Sortavalan saaristoa-2

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