Staraya Ladoga, known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) north of the town of Volkhov, the administrative center of the district.
The fortress of Ladoga was built in the 12th century and rebuilt 400 years later. It is now mostly reconstructed since being heavily damaged during World War II.
8th- to 10th-century Viking burial mounds along the Volkhov River near Staraya Ladoga
Ladoga Fortress 1909 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
Ladoga Fortress 2013
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