Novaya Ladoga is a town in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the point where the Volkhov River flows into Lake Ladoga, 140 kilometers (87 mi) east of St. Petersburg. Population: 8,838 (2010 Russian census); 9,920 (2002 Census); 11,310 (1989 Soviet census).
Nikolo-Medvedsky Monastery in Novaya Ladoga (1911 photo)
A lock of the disused Old Ladoga Canal in Novaya Ladoga
The trading arcades
Volkhovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central eastern part of the oblast and borders with Lodeynopolsky District in the northeast, Tikhvinsky District in the southeast, Kirishsky District in the south, and with Kirovsky District in the west. In the north, it is washed by Lake Ladoga. The area of the district is 5,124.4 square kilometers (1,978.5 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Volkhov. Population : 48,000 (2010 Russian census); 50,799 ; 58,939 (1989 Soviet census).
Panorama of the village of Storozhno on the shore of Lake Ladoga
The Assumption Cathedral, Staraya Ladoga
A lock of the Old Ladoga Canal (disused) in the town of Novaya Ladoga.
Church of Saint Dimitry of Thessaloniki, Staraya Ladoga