Svir (other)
Svir can refer to: *Svir, a river in Leningrad Oblast, Russia *Svir, Belarus, a town in Myadzyel District *, a lake in Myadzyel District, Belarus *9M119 Svir The 9K120 ''Svir'', 9K119 ''Refleks'', 9K119M ''Refleks-M'' (NATO reporting name AT-11 ''Sniper'') are laser beam riding, guided anti-tank missile systems developed in the Soviet Union. Both are designed to be fired from smoothbore 125 mm tan ...

Svir
The Svir (; ; Karelian language, Karelian and Finnish language, Finnish: ) is a river in Podporozhsky District, Podporozhsky, Lodeynopolsky District, Lodeynopolsky, and Volkhovsky District, Volkhovsky districts in the north-east of Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It flows westwards from Lake Onega to Lake Ladoga, thus connecting the two largest lakes of Europe. It is the largest river flowing into Lake Ladoga. The length of the Svir is , whereas the area of its drainage basin is . The towns of Podporozhye, Leningrad Oblast, Podporozhye and Lodeynoye Pole, as well as urban-type settlements Voznesenye, Nikolsky, Leningrad Oblast, Nikolsky, Vazhiny, and Svirstroy are located at the banks of the Svir. After Peter the Great connected the Svir with the Neva by the Ladoga Canal in the 18th century, the river has been part of the Mariinsk Canal System, currently the Volga–Baltic Waterway. The Onega Canal is a bypass of Lake Onega from the south, which connects the Svir with the Vytegra (r ...
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Svir, Belarus
Svir is an urban-type settlement in Myadzyel District, Minsk Region, Belarus.Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць: нарматыўны даведнік / І. А. Гапоненка, І. Л. Капылоў, В. П. Лемцюгова і інш.; пад рэд. В. П. Лемцюговай. — Мн.: Тэхналогія, 2003. — 604 с. ISBN 985-458-054-7. (djvu) С. 327. As of 2025, it has a population of 925. History It is believed to have been founded in the 13th century by the Lithuanian duke Daumantas and was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. The mound in the town has remains of fortifications from the 14th to 16th centuries. In the 18th to 19th centuries, the Lithuanians in Svir and its vicinities were Slavicized. Gallery Śvir, Rynak, Śviatoha Mikałaja. Сьвір, Рынак, Сьвятога Мікалая (1900).jpg, Market square in ...
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