Ladoga

[lah-duh-guh]

noun

1. Lake, a lake in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of St. Petersburg: largest lake in Europe. 7,000 sq. mi. (18,000 sq. km).

Ladoga

/ ˈladəɡə /

noun

1. Russian name: Ladozhskoye Ozero. a lake in NW Russia, in the SW Karelian Republic: the largest lake in Europe; drains through the River Neva into the Gulf of Finland. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Another uncle came from Moscow to help her family escape, which involved crossing the treacherous Lake Ladoga during the winter.

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But the boy survived, recovered from his wounds, and with a small company headed for Russia, traveled up the Neva River to Lake Ladoga and then on to Kiev, where his kinsman Prince Yaroslav ruled.

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Chernykh and her remaining family were evacuated from the city in September 1942, travelling by a barge along the Ladoga Lake that was constantly barraged by Nazi warplanes.

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Svetlana Village is an unusual community near Lake Ladoga, east of St. Petersburg, where about 40 people live in four large houses on a sprawling farm.

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The main vehicle is a recent documentary on top national channel Rossiya 1 about a monastery widely thought to be Mr Putin's favourite - Valaam, on a remote archipelago in northern Lake Ladoga.

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